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I built Robot Spirit Guide to ask questions and receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time. I'm using GPT-3 to generate answers to the q

I built Robot Spirit Guide to ask questions and receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time. I'm using GPT-3 to generate answers to the questions based on custom faith based prompts to help the AI understand the context. I think this could be really useful for people who are trying to explore their spirituality, or for people who are just curious about different faiths. I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

parthianshotgun 4y ago
Are there prompts that are tonally discordant amongst themselves? Most of the responses are what I'd expect a decent person to say (atleast with moral and ethical queries), regardless of religion. Also I wonder if subsets of the faiths are taken into account, like Islam's Sufism etc.
andrewtbham 4y ago
how did you train it?
- andrewtbham 4y ago
  are you saying it's just gpt3 and you only add a prompt for the religion?
  - jarrenae 4y ago
    This is correct. I mentioned in another comment that I'd like to train one, although I wasn't able to figure out a way with the time that I had to input an entire book and train it. If you have any suggestions, I would definitely do it.
metadaemon 4y ago
Would be cool if it could delve more into occult topics as there's usually a higher learning curve in that area.
Avshalom 4y ago
>receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time well you're not though, you're receiving answers from just GPT3. I would also point out that "a religion" is not a cohesive thing. Down to the level of individuals: Dorothy Day and Gustavo Gutiérrez aren't going to give you the same answers.
- jarrenae 4y ago
  You're right, and I agree. To be honest, I actually tried to train a large language model on each of the individual sources of information, so for Christianity, the Bible, for example. Unfortunately, I just wasn't able to scale that so this is more of a proof of concept. Over time I could imagine making it more robust though.

parthianshotgun 4y ago

Are there prompts that are tonally discordant amongst themselves? Most of the responses are what I'd expect a decent person to say (atleast with moral and ethical queries), regardless of religion. Also I wonder if subsets of the faiths are taken into account, like Islam's Sufism etc.

andrewtbham 4y ago

how did you train it?

andrewtbham 4y ago
are you saying it's just gpt3 and you only add a prompt for the religion?
- jarrenae 4y ago
  This is correct. I mentioned in another comment that I'd like to train one, although I wasn't able to figure out a way with the time that I had to input an entire book and train it. If you have any suggestions, I would definitely do it.

metadaemon 4y ago

Would be cool if it could delve more into occult topics as there's usually a higher learning curve in that area.

Avshalom 4y ago

>receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time well you're not though, you're receiving answers from just GPT3. I would also point out that "a religion" is not a cohesive thing. Down to the level of individuals: Dorothy Day and Gustavo Gutiérrez aren't going to give you the same answers.

jarrenae 4y ago
You're right, and I agree. To be honest, I actually tried to train a large language model on each of the individual sources of information, so for Christianity, the Bible, for example. Unfortunately, I just wasn't able to scale that so this is more of a proof of concept. Over time I could imagine making it more robust though.