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John Piper on ChatGPT · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Pastor John. I was tinkering around the other day with chat GBT, and
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  I asked it to spit out a tweet for me about artificial intelligence and Christian
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  joy, and to write it all in your voice. Here's what I said.
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  Quote Artificial intelligence may bring new levels of convenience and productivity, but let
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  us not mistake it for true joy. Our ultimate satisfaction can only be found
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  in Christ, who alone can satisfy the deepest longings of our hearts. Quote
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  simplistic connections here, but not too bad. It does actually sound like you.
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  But get this that second sentence, as it's written. Our ultimate satisfaction
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  can only be found in Christ, who alone can satisfy the deepest longings of
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  our hearts. That statement has never appeared in your written works or anyone's.
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  It has never appeared online anywhere, according to Google. From what I can
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  see, it's an original sentence, which is wild. As you know,
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  we're in the early stages of AI, when large data sets can be crunched
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  and synthesized and computers can essentially spit out what appear to be thoughtful responses to
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  prompts. Your ministry has produced one massive data set to put it crudely,
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  and a day is not far off, and maybe is here already when people
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  will be tempted not to go to this podcast or to your sermons or to
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  books to hear from you. They'll simply prompt for a summary answer to what
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  John Piper might say on a given ethical dilemma or Bible text, and some
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  AI model will spit out a summary response in text, or maybe even one
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  day in your own spoken voice, or even in a video generated response that
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  looks like you're talking. It's all still very early. Much is going to
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  change, but I want your early thoughts here, and to get us there,
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  I want to put one subtopic aside and make one assumption. First,
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  there are legal issues all over this, so let's put those aside for now.
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  Second, let's assume for the sake of today's episode that the generated text
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  is actually pretty good in a reasonably accurate representation of what you have said in
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  the past. What's your first gut instinct here at the highest level, what
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  would you want the age of computer generated John Piper AI to hear from you
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  in your own living voice about how you want your legacy of works to be
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  viewed in this coming age of artificial intelligence. Well, I like that last
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  question, and I really focusing my attention on the highest level, which I'll
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  try to do. But it's remarkable that this shows up right now, because
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  just a few weeks ago, in the faculty forum at Bethlehem College and Seminary,
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  where I teach and serve as chancellor, the issue of artificial intelligence,
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  and specifically chat GPT was part of the planned discussion, and in preparation,
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  one of our professors sent around the results of his request from chat GPT,
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  which stands for Chat Generative pre Trained Transformer, I learned, and he had
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  given the chatbot this instruction write an essay on Augustine's view of disordered love,
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  and it produced a four hundred word essay that I read, in which I
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  suppose would get a passing grade in your typical lit class in the university and
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  for sure in high school, which of course is a great concern for teachers.
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  And there are I learned also plagiarism detection programs like turn It in to
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  You r nitin or one word turn it in, which claimed to be able
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  to spot artificially produced essays at about ninety nine percent accuracy. So who knows,
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  maybe with the advancing possibilities of cheating and calling AI productions your own work,
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  there will be equal advances in software to detect that deception, and as
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  you, as you point out, really not just as potent but as realities.
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  There are people right now producing artificial John Piper quotations and artificial John Piper
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  voices which are close enough to accurate that the average person won't know the difference.
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  But your question at this point, thankfully because I'm no expert, is
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  not about legal issues. It's not about detection possibilities. It's about what's your
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  first gut instinct here at the highest level, what would you want the age
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  of computer generated John Piper AI to hear from you in order for your own
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  living voice to inform the world what you want your legacy of works to be
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  viewed as in the age of AI. So my gut doesn't reach out first
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  to my tongue. My gut reaches out first to my mind, where there's
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  a lot of Bible up there circulating around, and my guts insults with my
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  mind and says, hey, what does the Bible say or imply about this?
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  So here's my distillation about my answer or response to that way you've posed
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  the question really high level. The biblical vision of Christian hedonism really does provide
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  a remarkable framework for responding to artificial intelligence. This was a surprise to me
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  because I haven't thought about it before. Remember, Christian hedonism says that God
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  is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. Now,
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  what that does is elevate the spiritual affections of the human heart to the highest
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  possible level in the unique role that he human beings play in the purposes of
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  God in the creation of the world. God created the universe in order to
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  put his glory on display and to communicate himself to his creatures for our understanding
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  and our enjoyment Psalm nineteen one, Isaiah forty three seven, Romans one nineteen
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  to twenty one, Romans nine, twenty and twenty three, and on and
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  on. The purpose of God to glorify himself in creation reaches its god intended
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  climax when human beings not only rightly understand, but rightly feel the nature of
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  God's reality and the preciousness of his fellowship. God glorifies himself in the life
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  of humans when those humans understand him truly in their minds and rejoice in Him
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  duly in their hearts. If either of those is missing, mind understanding or
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  heart rejoicing, God is not glorified as he ought to be. And if
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  either of those is missing, the other one is flawed. Right ideas without
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  right rejoicing are barren, mechanical, and yes, you could say artificial,
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  even in the human mind, not just in the computer. They're artificial in
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  the human mind if they are not penetrated with rejoicing duly. Rejoicing without right
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  ideas, on the other hand, is like froth on a drink and not
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  fruit on a vine. For right thinking to glorify God, it must be
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  attached to right rejoicing in God. And for rejoicing in God to glorify God,
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  it must be rooted in right thinking about God. In other words,
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  the spiritual affections of the human heart are of the essence in the achievement of
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  the purposes of God in creating the world. These spiritual affections, the affections
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  of the human heart, will never be the product of computerized data banks.
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  And I say that not only because computers will never be human hearts. That
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  is, they'll never be created as humans in God's image. I say it
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  also because not only are human hearts or souls of another nature from computers in
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  computer language. I say it also because, and this is even more significant,
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  the God glorifying Christ exalting human heart is a new creation that is brought
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  into being by a supernatural not a natural, not a computerized intervention, by
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  the Holy Spirit. It's called new birth or new creation or new person.
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  The new creation in Christ, the new born heart, the supernaturally created person
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  is the only person who can rejoice in God for who he really is.
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  The eyes of the heart have been opened by the Holy Spirit. The spiritual
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  beauty of Christ in the Gospel is seen, and the echo of this beauty
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  in the w heart is to trust Him and rejoice in Him and treasure Him.
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  Those God glorifying affections spilling over an outward acts of love are the reason
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  God created the universe, which means, for chat GPT that it is quadrupely
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  cut off from god intended purposes for intelligence. So here they are, i'd
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  say chad GBT is quadrupely cut off from god intended purposes for intelligence. First,
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  it is a kind of intelligence, not affections, but affections are of
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  the essence in living a Christ, exalting God, glorifying human life. Second,
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  this so called intelligence is the product of a machine, not a heart,
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  and the heart it is of the essence of living a Christ, exalting
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  God, glorifying human life. Third, the causes and defects of this so
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  called intelligence are all natural, not supernatural. But the Bible makes plain that
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  the merely natural man and all the more natural computer, cannot be what humans
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  are created to be, namely God glorifying persons. Fourth, this artificial intelligence
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  is defective in the same way that a natural man is defective. It can
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  rise no higher than the natural, fallen, unregenerate heart of man. Intelligence,
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  as God gave it at first, was designed not only to perceive natural
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  external reality and then assemble it, but also to see in it, to
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  see through it the reality of the glory of God, the greatness, the
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  beauty, the worth of the infinite person who created us. When intelligence cannot
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  do this, cannot spiritually desern, see and feel that glory, it fails
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  in the most important reason that intelligence exists. So, in answer to the
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  question, I would like the legacy of my works to be viewed as the
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  fruit of a finite and fallible and imperfect human mind and human heart that were
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  touched by the supernatural work of God in Christ and enabled to see the glory
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  of God and feel something of the worth and reflect for the world the glory
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  of God, for the supernatural enjoyment of as many people as possible, quadruplely
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  cut off from God's intended purposes for intelligence. Thank you, Pstor John,
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  and thanks for joining us today. If you want to ask Pastor John the
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  the likelihood that we can save a baby's life. When this question came in,
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  it immediately grabbed my attention and it's up next time. I'm your host,
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  Tony Rink. See you Thursday.