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I use ChatGPT every night to create new bedtime stories with my kids. They supply the characters, setting, and conflict. AI blends it all into a fitting bedtime story.

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Huh, very interesting!

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Here's an example I generated based on the toys i have on my desk...

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Tell a bedtime story where spider-man and iron man team up to help John McClaine from Die Hard.

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Once upon a time in the bustling city of New York, there lived a brave police officer named John McClane. He was known for his incredible courage and unwavering determination. One chilly winter night, as John McClane patrolled the city streets, he found himself facing an unexpected threat.

A notorious criminal mastermind known as the Trickster had escaped from prison. With his cunning mind and diabolical gadgets, the Trickster devised a plan to wreak havoc on the city and take innocent people hostage. His objective was to spread chaos and fear throughout New York.

As the situation escalated, news of the Trickster's actions reached the ears of Tony Stark, the brilliant inventor and billionaire known as Iron Man. Determined to protect his city, Tony Stark activated his Iron Man suit and took to the skies. He knew he couldn't face this menace alone and decided to call upon a friend: the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

Meanwhile, Spider-Man, with his spider-like abilities and quick wit, swung through the city, keeping an eye out for any signs of trouble. As fate would have it, Spider-Man received Tony Stark's urgent call for help, and without hesitation, he swung towards the location of the unfolding crisis.

Arriving at the scene, Spider-Man and Iron Man found themselves face-to-face with the Trickster's henchmen, armed with dangerous weapons. The two heroes fought with remarkable agility and strength, their teamwork evident as they seamlessly covered each other's backs.

Inside the building, John McClane was trapped along with a group of hostages. He had been valiantly trying to keep them safe, but the Trickster's traps and gadgets proved to be a formidable challenge. Just when it seemed like all hope was lost, Spider-Man and Iron Man arrived to lend their assistance.

Spider-Man's acrobatics allowed him to disable the traps, while Iron Man used his technological genius to provide the hostages with protective gear. With the heroes' combined efforts, they managed to lead the hostages to safety, fighting off the Trickster's goons along the way.

But the Trickster wasn't one to be easily defeated. He had one final trick up his sleeve—an elaborate device that would trigger a city-wide blackout, plunging New York into chaos. With time running out, Spider-Man and Iron Man raced against the clock to locate and disable the device.

Using their unique abilities, Spider-Man's spider-sense and Iron Man's advanced technology, they managed to track down the device and dismantle it just in the nick of time. The city was saved from darkness and the Trickster was apprehended.

As dawn broke over the city, John McClane thanked Spider-Man and Iron Man for their incredible teamwork and bravery. Together, they had foiled the Trickster's plans and saved countless lives. A newfound respect and camaraderie had formed between the heroes, as they bid each other farewell, knowing that they would always be there to protect the city when needed.

And so, the story of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and John McClane became a legendary tale, inspiring hope and reminding everyone that when great heroes unite, no challenge is too great. As the city slept peacefully once again, its citizens dreamed of the incredible adventures that awaited them in a world where heroes like Spider-Man and Iron Man fought side by side to protect the innocent.

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My son recently shared with me two very intensive studies, on in environmental science and one in legal research, in which they found that AI will fabricate full citations for references that do not exist when the system does not have any relevant background to cite. Scary!

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Yes, ChatGPT is good for creative tasks, not for fact checking.

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It's an excellent liar especially if you're not proficient in such subject matter or don't bother to check references.

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So far, I use AI to speed up my workflows. But I've yet to see it contribute a meaningful or unique idea. Still, I wish it had been around when I was in college. Could've taken hours off my homework...

One other thing I do like about ChatGPT is you can ask it a question like, "Give me a list of every scripture that talks about X" or "Who are the best-known commentators on the Book of Revelation?" It probably takes a scholar to assess the value of those outputs, but I find it helpful to kickstart an investigation.

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Yes, I found the plug-in Monica very useful and a good way to deploy AI in work flows.

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I'll use ChatGTP to write marketing/promotional copy because I'm terrible at it.

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Yes, it's good for that.

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Voxscript plugin for ChatGpt4 premium users is a game change.

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I have got to the place where I take my phone instead of my Bible to church every Sunday. But this morning whilst I was driving down to the local hot bread shop, the chappie on the car radio topically mentioned how more and more folk use their phones for everything including medicare, driver's license, credit cards, bank accounts, insurance accounts and so on. etc. So the radio chappie asked the question of what happens if we lose our phones and his sturdy answer was that we would be really in trouble .. :-)

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To fear is a personal issue. To tell another not to fear is God's responsibility only. Each one of us has the choice of what we fear and how much of our fear to accept or deal with. I believe there are two kinds of fear, rational and irrational fear. When I was 16 I feared the night. When I was 17 I asked Jesus to be my savior and He took that fear from me instantly without me even asking. However, not all of my fears have been handled that way. It seems to me that we have the ability (A God given ability) to mold the thing we fear into something of value, accept that God is in 'Complete control of everything' or live with an irrational fear. It's our personal choice. Some things should be feared for good reasons. God is one of them.

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As you have heard: "AI hallucinations" is a term for AI fabricated content or "plausible sounding AI made-up nonsense". Watch out for this!

In response to the Noah Yuval Harari fanciful speculations, John Lennox wrote a short book: 2084, in which he deals with AI and the future of humanity, and is mindful of all this from a Christian perspective.

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I'm susprised I'm one of the 3% who voted that it's the future of humanity

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I checked "AI scares me," but it's not so much AI per se, but people using AI. AI incorporates all our human traits, but does it invisibly, and therefore without accountability. How do we audit AI? People are just as dangerous, but we have learned ways to check and balance, so problems can be mitigated (not that they always are). How do we do this with AI?

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I'm a preterist so I don't believe this, but if the futurists are correct about a future "end times antichrist figure", I bet it will be an ai that we created.

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I have no fear of AI, but I do have concerns -- as a writer and as a member of various artistic communities, the conversation around copyright, credit, and the replacement of humans by machines is one that we need to have more Christian voices in. Creating is a huge part of what makes us in the image of God -- to say, "Well, I'd rather have an algorithm do something for free instead of pay an artist to do it" is to devalue that part of our nature. (Not to get into the differences between "generating" and "creating," which we could, but it's a far bigger conversation.)

I think Christian voices should be some of the loudest saying, Hey. These algorithms are stealing the work of real humans without credit or compensation, for the benefit of those who aren't willing to learn to do it themselves or pay a human who's already learned. This is unethical, and it raises serious questions about the value of human work.

...also come on. Why have we created code to do the FUN parts of life but we're still forcing people to risk life, limb, and sanity doing work that realistically a machine could do... it's just cheaper to make people do it. We've made people disposable, and AI "art" generation only deepens the problem.

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One concern is that AI could merge the most popular aspects of all the world religions into a single composite. Then, aligned with an appealing composite visual, put forth a new religion appealing to the widest possible global audience. And, once established, the iconic image representing this new world religion would eventually become the abomination of desolation placed in the third temple.

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