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

[Ted Kochanski]

All

As I mentioned yesterday -- I applied for a demo and am on the waiting list

I thought of asking about the recent breakthrough announcements in Fusion

But I may ask the generic question suggested yesterday as part of our
discussion:
How was the corpus used for training ChatGPT created

Ted

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 8:05 PM Stephen Quatrano <stefanoq at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd feel better about this assertion, Ted, if you framed it as a question:
>  How was the corpus used for training ChatGPT created?  That is a great
> question.
>
> Or, on the other hand, of course, you could provide evidence of what you
> claim.
>
> Personally, I have no evidence one way or the other to share.
>
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> On Feb 15, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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