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I was just granted access to the latest version of GPT-4 that allows for uploads of longer and a greater variety of files. A few thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n The take-home essay is history. It\u2019s all blue books and oral quizzes now. A weaker version of GPT-4 can now upload books <\/span>300 pages long<\/span><\/i>. Even if it’s not in the training set people can upload a PDF of a book and get it to write a B-level book report. (And no, AI detectors don\u2019t work, they give a lot of false positives).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But enough inside undergraduate baseball, what implications does this have for gospel topics? We were already at the stage where you could upload a general conference talk and create an EQ lesson in seconds.\u00a0<\/span>These updates allow people to upload longer content. When I was doing the Maxwell Institute seminar with the Bushmans when I was in graduate school I spent an afternoon command+Fing through the Journal of Discourses to find pronatalist rhetoric of early Church leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, the problem with that is that you can have pronatalist rhetoric that doesn\u2019t mention the word \u201cchild,\u201d and you can have a lot of mentions of the word \u201cchild\u201d that doesn\u2019t have pronatalist rhetoric, so it was a lot of time, and to catch the really nuanced discussion and themes that didn\u2019t have keyword triggers I\u2019d have to schlog through the entire Journal of Discourses. (Indeed, while reading Michael Quinn\u2019s work I was always stunned at his ability to find juicy quotes in very out-of-the-way materials, and my only conclusion was that he basically read through the entire Church History Library looking for surprising factoids.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I uploaded the entire first volume of the J of D and asked it for pronatalist rhetoric. When it originally gave me a lot of quotes about how to raise children I corrected it and said I was specifically asking about <\/span>having<\/span><\/i> children (not that the former is not important, it just isn\u2019t what I was looking for). It said that there wasn\u2019t much explicit about encouraging childbearing in volume 1, but it directed me towards, among other things, the section in the first volume that talks about Jesus being a polygamist, correctly noting that the emphasis on plural wives and children clearly had pronatalist undertones even if it wasn\u2019t explicit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, I uploaded the entire book of \u201cJesus the Christ\u201d and asked it to give me quotes from sections where it talks about Jesus being angry. There was a little bit of hallucination with some of the quotes dealing with people being angry at Jesus, but the handful of quotes that I handchecked checked out, and were actually in the book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, not relevant to the newest updates, but I am increasingly finding AI helpful in my scripture studies. This evening I told it to give me quotes from Jesus that are examples of him showing love to others. The other night I tried to remember which prophets literally asked God for death, and GPT-4 gave me the list along with quotations (can you name them off the top of your head? There are four, answers below).<\/p>\n So to summarize, the latest updates have the potential to greatly facilitate historical\/social research and personal scripture study. Want to look at all references to ancient Egyptian or the pure Adamic language in early Church discourses and messaging? You can do that in moments now. Want to systematically track changes in Church policies across the years? Also mere moments. The caveats still apply: all work will have to be double checked by a human because of hallucination, but the time spent on quality checks notwithstanding we are quickly entering an era when every Church historian, amateur or professional, has an army of research assistants on tap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Answer: Moses, Elijah, Job (who, it specifies, is “not a prophet in the traditional sense”), and Jonah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was just granted access to the latest version of GPT-4 that allows for uploads of longer and a greater variety of files. A few thoughts. The take-home essay is history. It\u2019s all blue books and oral quizzes now. A weaker version of GPT-4 can now upload books 300 pages long. Even if it’s not in the training set people can upload a PDF of a book and get it to write a B-level book report. 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