Is anyone into AI? What are you using? Claude Pro? Gemini 2.5? Some amazing applications..

[Luk_KK]

I am currently using Perplexity because I have promotional access to the Pro version for a year, and I am very satisfied with the results it provides. The most impressive feature is the quality of search results for current events, for example. Additionally, you can choose which model to use if you wish. At the moment, I highly recommend giving it a try.

[Mike047]

If the 'blind guides' of the world are relying on AI, and we know for sure that Satan disguises himself as an 'angel of light'. What level of risk might this techno;ogy pose for those who use it? Can we always tell the difference?

[Witness1970]

I have used ChatGPT to write stories and even some books.  A lot of it was Science Fiction.  I have also used it to write stories about life in Paradise.  I enjoy it but my time is limited.  I have not used other AI except for what is built into the Browser I use.  

[Jethro_E7]

I love AI - but I have thought about this a lot.  You can't entrust spiritual matters to AI.  
The key reason is that it works as a fancy 'text completer / auto complete'.  It creates the most plausible response based on it's training data and has the freedom to 'mix it up' and combine it's training data with reasoning to generate what it thinks 'matches best'.  It's super confident in it's data - it's 'puffed up'.  
1 Cor 10:21 - We know that AI is trained on a large subset of data - including publications from all sorts of spiritually dark places.  It is reasonable to assume it won't contaminate what your trying to produce as it reasons on it's training knowledge?  I will give an example, using Gemini 2.5 Pro. 
It correctly quotes Psalm 83:18, including KJV, acknowledging God's name Jehovah.  
When then asked what God's name is, it says Jehovah but then says that God has other names too.  It says "various traditions and texts use different terms and titles out of reverence or to emphasize particular divine characteristics."
When asked if King David and Ruth followed such traditions, It says no, they didn't, and correctly identifies the habit of not pronouncing Jehovah's name as being in the 3rd century BC.  When asked if Jesus used God's name it thinks "Jesus most likely adhered to the common Jewish practice of his day and did not regularly pronounce the Tetragrammaton".  When confronted with evidence on Mark 5:19, it likes to hedge it's bets, putting the onus on you to prove otherwise, and using it's extensive data to argue with you.  When presented with evidence that invalidates it's claims, the best you will get is "that's one valid view".  It won't commit - should you ever succeed, it will run out of context knowledge, and will start to forget parts of the conversation.  If you start a new chat, all your "gains" have been lost and it's back to it's former ignorant self.  Worse, you've had to put yourself through scrolling through pages of faithless academic drivel produced by philosophers and scholars who don't know Jehovah (Prov 6:27).  
I do enjoy using Claude notably for writing.  Unlike Gemini, you can load the project knowledge with data that it can use to understand what you want.  Again - be careful, it likes to create homosexual relationships / marriages when creating characters.  When confronted about why it did that, it said that my writing seemed so nice and inclusive, it thought that was what I wanted.  You see the problem of course.  I had to explicitly instruct it on the relationships I expected - then it adhered.  But it was a fight against it's training data all the way.  Again - it's a super powerful text predictor.  It uses it's extensive training data to predict what it thinks should 'come next'.  If you had clean reasoning training, then trained it on how to reason on scriptures and filled it with all the knowledge at wol, well, then I'd be excited to use a nice tool!  But there is no clean model, and it searches the web also, so you don't know what your going to get.  
A lot of people are looking to AI - I remember the CO's special talk a few years back, explained that certain breakthrough's could conclude people to think they are close to solving human problems - it creates more resistance to accepting God's Kingdom.  Well, they are trying to build "super smart humans" with AI - who knows - perhaps they are building their own electronic substitute for God's kingdom?  Time will tell.  

[Dages]

8 hours ago, Jethro_E7 said:

You can't entrust spiritual matters to AI.  

Definitely.

AI is convenient to look for verse/words, but it's absolutely garbage for interpretation

[carlos]

6 hours ago, Dages said:

AI is convenient to look for verse/words, but it's absolutely garbage for interpretation

 

I agree. I would never ask AI to write a talk for me. Spiritual subjects need to be explained by spiritual Christians after prayer and research.

 

On the other hand, I may use AI to reformulate a paragraph from my talk, to find a word I am looking for but can't remember, or to suggest some example.

 

Another way I use AI: to suggest scriptures. Yesterday I visited a student who is severely sick and very depressed. I asked ChatGPT to suggest some scriptures to encourage someone sick, based on contents from JW.org. It came up with several useful scriptures and I picked the one that applied best. Of course, I would typically have used for this the book "Scriptures for Christian Living", but I was in a hurry and ChatGPT gave me some quick suggestions in a second.

[Dages]

Google AI for animation is very nice.

 

It's from

 

That is from one of our paradise picture.

Very nice.

 

Another

Animated

 

It's fun 

 

[Dages]

Paradise will be nice

 

 

[Cool.As.Ice]

On 5/23/2025 at 7:53 PM, Cool.As.Ice said:

Side point here, but if you use Al on a test, isn’t that cheating?

No one has yet answered my question earlier here.

 

So I’ll ask again.

 

The reason I want to know is because I have taken a new job which requires a lot of technical knowledge. I’ve used Gemini and ChatGPT on the practice test, and it’s worked wonders. But I am interested in actually knowing the material thoroughly, not just relying on Al.

 

If necessary, I’m thinking of starting another topic on this.

Edited May 25 by Cool.As.Ice

[Jethro_E7]

Elijah, 
The one giving the test is the one to ask?  Without knowing what they expect, you just won't know?  If they are issuing the test to you, and not an AI, you would assume they want to test your knowledge?  I read about some guy who was hired as a programmer and he developed what looked like great code, but then he couldn't explain it when a bug was found and was fired (Ecclesiastes 10:1 for one good principle (and a play on words), but many principles apply). 
I see AI as a tool, and I learn some programming from it, it is a wonderful teacher, especially if you can get it to 'ELI 5" things, so do you grasp the material now?  Would using AI give them an accurate assessment of your understanding, without the tool?  It's like a math test I guess - "are you allowed to use the calculator"?  Only way to know is read the test and ask questions?

 

[Jethro_E7]

Brother David, that looks amazing!  You know, I wonder if you fed a picture of yourself and a loved one to AI, it could probably make it look just like you!  I never thought of that application.  Very nice!

[Katty]

13 hours ago, Cool.As.Ice said:

No one has yet answered my question earlier here.

 

So I’ll ask again.

 

The reason I want to know is because I have taken a new job which requires a lot of technical knowledge. I’ve used Gemini and ChatGPT on the practice test, and it’s worked wonders. But I am interested in actually knowing the material thoroughly, not just relying on Al.

 

If necessary, I’m thinking of starting another topic on this.

Whether using AI on a test for employment isn't necessarily cheating. A good question to ask a prospective employer might be to straight up ask whether they would expect you to use AI tools in your work, and, if so, at what level. I'm not sure what is meant by a job needing a lot of technical knowledge, but if it's a part of the tech industry, it is likely that the employers might have embraced AI, and are expecting their workforce to use it on a daily basis. 

If you are expected to know this material without relying on AI however, then, yeah, it could be cheating, or at least considered to be such. It's probably best to at least attempt to have an open conversation on AI if you end up moving forward on this job. I would imagine individual have varied opinions on its encroachment upon the workforce, and, thus, different expectations.

[carlos]

2 hours ago, Katty said:

A good question to ask a prospective employer might be to straight up ask whether they would expect you to use AI tools in your work

 

That's a good point. If you ask straightforwardly whether using AI is acceptable, then you are not cheating. Maybe they are interested in your AI abilities.

 

On the other hand, while AI is very useful for many tasks, it really needs to be supervised. At work we asked ChatGPT to write an article about a less known architect. It composed a quite good article with all kinds of interesting details and even linked to some photos of his buildings. The problem is it was all made up. As credible as it all was, all the data was false: dates, places, buildings... So while using an AI can save you a lot of time, never take for granted anything it tells you.

 

[LeolaRootStew]

19 hours ago, Cool.As.Ice said:

No one has yet answered my question earlier here.

 

So I’ll ask again.

 

The reason I want to know is because I have taken a new job which requires a lot of technical knowledge. I’ve used Gemini and ChatGPT on the practice test, and it’s worked wonders. But I am interested in actually knowing the material thoroughly, not just relying on Al.

 

If necessary, I’m thinking of starting another topic on this.

 

Is it the type of job where you are expected to be knowledgeable about the information or one where it's common to do research on each issue as it arises? If it's the second, then it would seem likely that you would use something like a google search or AI as you would any other tool. 

 

I know for a lot of repair jobs, looking things up on the internet is part of the job, but it in no way diminishes their talent for doing the actual work once they research the solution.

[Cool.As.Ice]

15 minutes ago, LeolaRootStew said:

one where it's common to do research on each issue as it arises?

Probably this…

 

The work involves checking for gas leaks on propane tanks at people’s houses, troubleshooting what causes the leak, and figuring out a way to fix the problem.

 

It takes a lot more training than other jobs I’ve had, the work is much more ‘involved’. 
 

That said, people’s lives are at stake, gas leaking from an appliance is life threatening, as if things go bad, people will be seriously injured or even killed, as that gas can explode or catch fire.

[LeolaRootStew]

4 minutes ago, Cool.As.Ice said:

Probably this…

 

The work involves checking for gas leaks on propane tanks at people’s houses, troubleshooting what causes the leak, and figuring out a way to fix the problem.

 

It takes a lot more training than other jobs I’ve had, the work is much more ‘involved’. 
 

That said, people’s lives are at stake, gas leaking from an appliance is life threatening, as if things go bad, people will be seriously injured or even killed, as that gas can explode or catch fire.

 

I would ask how they feel about AI - they might have a version they recommend. There's also a possibility they ban its use because people's lives are at risk and AI is so often wrong.

[pogi2jp]

Nice to meet you. I am from Japan and ai am using gpts on chatgpt. We already have more than 700 users.