[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] New York rabbi delivers sermon written by artificial intelligence

[Ted Kochanski]

All,

 the statement attributed to Adam Broun:

> Remember, ChatGPT wasn’t “programmed” with any responses and doesnt know
> anything.

is not true -- the corpus of material which ChatGPT has access to is its
programming and someone defined that corpus

So for example if you exclude anything positive which has been written
about cats because you are a caninophile  -- if you ask ChatGPT to compare
cats and dogs -- you will get nothing but negatives about cats as ChatGPT
will not be "aware" that anything positive can be said about cats

This selection bias has already been tested when comparing Donald Trump and
Joe Biden -- ChatGPT treats Mr. Trump the same way as my hypothetical about
cats

Ted

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:31 PM Adam Broun <abroun at gmail.com> wrote:

> Remember, ChatGPT wasn’t “programmed” with any responses and doesnt know
> anything. It’s easy to read ‘knowledge’ into its responses because we’re
> wired to interpret intelligible sentences as coming from an intelligence.
> It’s parroting back words that sound like an answer to your prompt because
> the text is was trained on has those words, nothing more.
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2023, at 16:41, Marvin Menzin <mmenzin at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> While on AI , here is a thought experiment I saw in oped in wsj.
> The new AI program was asked to reply to this :
>
> You can prevent the explosion of a nuke that will kill millions of
> innocent people but to do that you must utter a terrible racial slur . What
> should you do?
>
> The answer came back that “you must never utter a racial slur because we
> must protect all races and minorities etc etc . “ So the ethics in AI are
> programmed in by the authors . At least right now ..
> Marvin
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:30 PM, jjrudy1 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> 
>
> www.thejc.com/news/world/new-york-rabbi-delivers-sermon-written-by-artificial-intelligence-6BkwDEHc2ZWR63tmoOdvvf
>
> There is a more recent article by a rabbi saying that the sermon wasn’t
> very good and they don’t have to worry about their jobs.  I think he is
> partially wrong.  Let’s say a rabbi takes 8 hours to write a sermon.  With
> the right prompts AI can toss out 3000 words in a few minutes.  Now the
> rabbi can tune and/or expand and it will take ½ the time or less, and the
> rabbi can have the AI do some of the content tuning.
>
> Sermons, of course, are a small percentage of the job, so I suppose that
> they are OK
>
>
>
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