Comments on: Yes, you could type Quaker queries into the ChatGPT typing monkey or you could, you know, support Friends Journal https://www.quakerranter.org/yes-you-could-type-quaker-queries-into-the-chatgpt-typing-monkey-or-you-could-you-know-support-friends-journal/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 15 May 2025 14:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: Elaine Leet https://www.quakerranter.org/yes-you-could-type-quaker-queries-into-the-chatgpt-typing-monkey-or-you-could-you-know-support-friends-journal/#comment-948264 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:52:22 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=116280#comment-948264 The most important thing to keep in mind about ChatGPT and AI, IMO, is that it’s from the past and about the past, all history and established patterns. AI doesn’t lay claim to divine leadings. It can only predict the future based on the past. It draws on a base written in the past. It draws on a mostly uncopyrighted past.

Artificial Generative Intelligence is a tool. To find out what has already been done, it is a useful tool.
AI is not any more a guide to the future than a docent at a museum.

Friends Journal is about the present and the future, especially those wonderful videos featuring real present-day Friends. The Now and Tomorrow need to be our focus.

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