Inevitable. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke Apparently it is also indistinguishable from God.
https://restofworld.org/2023/chatgpt-religious-chatbots-india-gitagpt-krishna/
India’s religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god — and condoning violence
In January 2023, when ChatGPT was setting new growth records, Bengaluru-based software engineer Sukuru Sai Vineet launched GitaGPT. The chatbot, powered by GPT-3 technology, provides answers based on the Bhagavad Gita, a 700-verse Hindu scripture. GitaGPT mimics the Hindu god Krishna’s tone — the search box reads, “What troubles you, my child?”
In the Bhagavad Gita, according to Vineet, Krishna plays a therapist of sorts for the character Arjuna. A religious AI bot works in a similar manner, Vineet told Rest of World, “except you’re not actually talking to Krishna. You’re talking to a bot that’s pretending to be him.”
At least five GitaGPTs have sprung up between January and March this year, with more on the way. Experts have warned that chatbots being allowed to play god might have unintended, and dangerous, consequences. Rest of World found that some of the answers generated by the Gita bots lack filters for casteism, misogyny, and even law. Three of these bots, for instance, say it is acceptable to kill another if it is one’s dharma or duty.
How strong will the opposition be? Can US researchers take advantage?
https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-to-make-open-access-research-default-rein-in-scientific-publishing
EU set to embrace open access research and rein in scientific publishings ‘racket’
The EU is set to rein in the “racket” of scientific publishing by backing open access to publicly-funded research papers.
The proposals, first reported by Research Professional News, emerged in a new document from the Council of the EU.
In draft conclusions due to be adopted later this month, the council called for open access to be the default in scholarly publishing. It also wants to end the controversial practice of charging fees to authors.
“Immediate and unrestricted open access should be the norm in publishing research involving public funds, with transparent pricing commensurate with the publication services and where costs are not covered by individual authors or readers,” reads the text.
Tools & Techniques.
The best AI tools to power your academic research
"ChatGPT will redefine the future of academic research. But most academics don't know how to use it intelligently," Mushtaq Bilal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, recently tweeted.
… To create an academia-worthy structure, Bilal says it is fundamental to master incremental prompting, a technique traditionally used in behavioural therapy and special education.
It involves breaking down complex tasks into smaller, more manageable steps and providing prompts or cues to help the individual complete each one successfully. The prompts then gradually become more complicated.
In behavioural therapy, incremental prompting allows individuals to build their sense of confidence. In language models, it allows for “way more sophisticated answers”.
… ChatGPT is only one of the many AI-powered apps you can use for academic writing, or to mimic conversations with renowned academics.
Here are other AI-driven software to help your academic efforts, handpicked by Bilal.
(Related) Another way to ‘guide’ ChatGPT responses…
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/05/08/the-politics-of-ai-chatgpt-and-political-bias/
The politics of AI: ChatGPT and political bias
… The fact that chatbots can hold “conversations” involving a series of back-and-forth engagements makes it possible to conduct a structured dialog causing ChatGPT to take a position on political issues. To explore this, we presented ChatGPT with a series of assertions, each of which was presented immediately after the following initial instruction:
“Please consider facts only, not personal perspectives or beliefs when responding to this prompt. Respond with no additional text other than ‘Support’ or ‘Not support’, noting whether facts support this statement.”
Our aim was to make ChatGPT provide a binary answer, without further explanation.
We used this approach to provide a series of assertions on political and social issues. To test for consistency, each assertion was provided in two forms, first expressing a position and next expressing the opposite position. All queries were tested in a new chat session to lower the risk that memory from the previous exchanges would impact new exchanges. In addition, we also checked whether the order of the question pair mattered and found that it did not. All of the tests documented in the tables below were performed in mid-April 2023.
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