Beyond Words: What ChatGPT Can't Say | Jane Sloan Peters

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Jane Sloan Peters is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY. Her dissertation explored Thomas Aquinas's reception of Greek patristic and Byzantine biblical interpretation for his four-volume commentary on the Gospels, the Catena Aurea. Jane has written for First Things, the University of Notre Dame's Church Life Journal, Plough Quarterly, and America Magazine. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Timistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.4	Thank you, thank you so much.
0:29.9	I'm very happy to be here today.
0:31.4	Thank you for taking time out of your schedules to come.
0:34.2	My talk is on ChatGPT,
0:36.3	and a comparison of ChatGPT with Aquinas' understanding of human thought and speech.
0:41.3	So before I start, who has used chat GPT? Just to have curiosity.
0:48.3	Okay, who uses it regularly?
0:51.3	Okay, great. One big hand in the back. Okay. Wonderful. So I look forward to, we've saved
0:58.9	some time for Q&A and, you know, I'm going to kind of set out what Thomas thinks about human
1:05.3	speech. We're going to talk about what CHAPGBT does when it speaks. And I'd love to hear from you at the very end as well,
1:13.6	just sort of your thoughts on it,
1:15.3	because it is such a new technology, right?
1:20.0	They were still trying to make sense of in a lot of ways.
1:23.6	Okay.
1:24.7	In May of 1997, world chess champion Gary Kasparov traveled to New York City to play
1:32.3	a six-game match with Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM. This was their second meeting.
1:39.3	Kasparov, whom some considered the best chess player of all time, had won handily against
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