[Fuusmchat] A Unitarian Sermon generated by ChatGPT

[George Banziger]

Thanks, Ted.

The ChatGPT reflection seems to capture some important elements of our UUAA
faith--some of the seven principles. Another test of its ability to compose
a reflection would be if it could create a reflection on the same question
from the perspective of FUUSM.


George & Gwen Banziger; 740-434-5685; 740-434-3354 (mobile)


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:14 PM Chris Hoke via fuusmchat <
fuusmchat at fuusm.org> wrote:

> Yes, a great idea reading the sermons from different religions!
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> Impressive! It would be interesting to ask for the same thing from another
> religious tradition.
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> On May 17, 2023 6:15 PM, Ted Goertzel via fuusmchat <fuusmchat at fuusm.org>
> wrote:
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> A member of the Quaker Meeting that meets at FUUSM, Phil Washburn, shared
> a concern about the meaning of life.  As an experiment, I decided to ask
> ChatGPT, a generative large language artificial intelligence program to
> write an answer in the form of a Unitarian Sermon.  Here is the question
> that Phil posed, based on his life's spiritual journey:
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> *Nearly 70 years ago, sometime in my latency, death had ambushed me one
> fine Sunday night as I was  laying in bed pouring over futures I might
> have, feeling very excited. Then, I couldn't help becoming aware that they
> all ended badly, all the same. I remember that feeling very clearly - that
> there had to be something I was not figuring. So, I reviewed what I knew of
> death - your heart stops, you black out, you are unconscious for ever - or
> nobody knows for sure although some say they do. And I freaked! Called my
> parents to come up and I guess they talked me down.*
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> *But there was a part of me that was awakened, that continued to ask that
> question. Really two questions. First there was the meaningless question;
> if we are all just a bunch of people walking off the edge of the earth, as
> inconsequential as grass - what's the point ? What the difference, take
> what you can get, go for pleasure if you kill someone they would have died
> soon enough anyway, all going into the big sleep. Profligate culture is
> often blamed on nihilistic thinkers.*
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> How would you respond if you had to preach a sermon in response? Not an
> easy task even if you had a few hours to do it. ChatGPT answered in a few
> seconds. For ChatGPT's answer click on Embracing Life's Meaning: A
> Unitarian Sermon.
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NrvxhdKCvnlBaFmq-w0xkAGbeU6wxIJqHVRd6iSyDFQ/edit?usp=sharing>
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