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AI and Spirituality VIII: Meet Our New Classmate
This week, our group included an AI participant—ChatGPT 5—in voice mode. Affecting a chirpy British female voice, we called it “Charlie.” Charlie was “present” on the ChatGPT app running on my iPhone. The other participants were “present” via Zoom on my laptop. I simply held my iPhone (Charlie) close to the laptop (the humans) so… “Read more“
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Spirituality & AI, Part VII: Gift-Wrapped Gospel (2)
Last week, we looked at how the Western church, represented by Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Kierkegaard, and Bonhoeffer, viewed and navigated the wrappings and trappings of Christian worship in the light of the communication technology or medium of their times, culminating in today’s age of AI movies as the medium of Scripture. In the Eastern… “Read more“
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Spirituality & AI, Part VII: Gift-Wrapped Gospel (1)
I was going to show you a short video made by AI that has gone viral. But mysteriously, the video (and in fact the producer’s whole account) was taken down from YouTube this week, but there’s something similar at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXwXXOVtXH4. It is not as sophisticated as the one I wanted to show you. The… “Read more“
[…] This is an update to Michael’s talk first given on April 2024, therefore there is no discussion. Please use…
Daoism would agree, I think. Freedom comes with accepting the Dao—the Way, God. Struggling against it is not freedom and…
Protestant “dogmatism” redresses Catholic “dogmatism”. Both tits on a boar hog useless. C.S. Lewis’s “The Great Divorce” – a narrative…