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I certainly didn't expect to read a treatise from the Pope about LLM hallucination today. I wonder who at the Vatican is keeping up with the latest AI advances

• lupire 3y ago
  Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Life is a major area of interest to religions, since their business is defining and guiding life. Religion is the home to most modern day philosophical thinking and struggle. It's been a hot topic in sermons all year.
• anon291 3y ago
  > I wonder who at the Vatican is keeping up with the latest AI advances and helping Francis stay on top of it The Vatican directly charters universities across the globe. I imagine they have several experts on the topic who are working with them, and I imagine they also have clergy and religious knowledgeable in both catholic theology and mathematics, computer science, HPC and AI. Fun fact, the first american woman to earn a phd in computer science was a nun
• sangnoir 3y ago
  > I wonder who at the Vatican is keeping up with the latest AI advances and helping Francis stay on top of it? The Catholic church has many scientists in the ranks, and is responsible for a fair share of scientific discoveries. The father of genetics was sworn to abstinence as a priest, and the Jesuits (the current pope's former order) have been particularly prolific in astronomy.
  • gattilorenz 3y ago
    Fun fact: even the Big Bang was first proposed by a physicist who was also a Catholic priest!