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Re: GPT Spiritual Avisor

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Post by photochemsyn »

dragonwriter wrote: post #34
photochemsyn wrote: post #26

The presented breakdown of religions isn't very coherent. There might be three primary branches, with further leaves: 1) The Abrahamic tradition is the progenitor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in that rough chronological order, all arising in the same geographical region (the Middle East/Meditteranean zone) - from there you get into various orthodoxies, e.g. Protestants & Catholics, Sunni & Shia, etc. 2) Buddh…

> The presented breakdown of religions isn't very coherent. They are atheism plus the top four in the US by number (when excluding “unaffiliated”), which may not be your preferred basis for a selection, but is clearly a coherent one. > The Abrahamic tradition is the progenitor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in that rough chronological order Rough?

Atheism also isn't really a coherent religion, it's more like checking 'none of the above' on a multiple-choice test. I suppose there are the "New Atheists" who'd disagree, but they're pretty insufferable IMO.

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Post by jarrenae »

Avshalom wrote: post #11
jarrenae wrote: post #2

I built Robot Spirit Guide to ask questions and receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time. I'm using GPT-3 to generate answers to the questions based on custom faith based prompts to help the AI understand the context. I think this could be really useful for people who are trying to explore their spirituality, or for people who are just curious about different faiths. I'd love to hear your th…

>receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time well you're not though, you're receiving answers from just GPT3. I would also point out that "a religion" is not a cohesive thing. Down to the level of individuals: Dorothy Day and Gustavo Gutiérrez aren't going to give you the same answers.

You're right, and I agree. To be honest, I actually tried to train a large language model on each of the individual sources of information, so for Christianity, the Bible, for example. Unfortunately, I just wasn't able to scale that so this is more of a proof of concept. Over time I could imagine making it more robust though.

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Post by jarrenae »

andrewtbham wrote: post #15
andrewtbham wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how did you train it?

are you saying it's just gpt3 and you only add a prompt for the religion?

This is correct. I mentioned in another comment that I'd like to train one, although I wasn't able to figure out a way with the time that I had to input an entire book and train it. If you have any suggestions, I would definitely do it.

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Post by jarrenae »

sva_ wrote: post #6

The prompt appears to be > You are an expert [chosen belief] professor answering student's questions on a test. Reply as teacher. Or maybe there is more?

It starts with that yes, but then I actually have an example question and feed it an "accurate" response based on the selected faith, in order to make the responses more direct, and in line with what we would like the response to sound like.

I'd like to train an LLM on the source books and accompanying texts over time. This is more of a proof of concept.

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Post by jarrenae »

bartislartfast wrote: post #20

Wait... Atheism? How does one answer spiritual questions from an Atheist perspective? Surely that's impossible since the ethics and morals of an Atheist can't be drawn from a single source.

You are correct. I'd like to add trans data from different sources and to build it into a more of a robust study tool rather than an entertaining side project, which is pretty much what it is right now.

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Post by jarrenae »

notahacker wrote: post #18

This great fun Christianity ...If you need to use the hammer for a specific job, then yes, it would be a good idea to use the hammer in the morning. However, it is ultimately up to you to decide when to use the hammer. Buddhism ...If you are looking to build something, then yes, you can use a hammer in the morning. However, if you are looking for a deeper spiritual understanding, then the answer would be different...…

This is definitely the intended purpose, more of a lighthearted approach to spiritual consultants.

I also really like asking it questions that are clearly out of the scope of spiritual matters, especially if I ask questions about colonizing space and things like that.

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