The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[rayheinrich]

So, I just had to go there...
Since I know the Russian Orthodox Church's Old Testament has additional books
that the King James Version Old Testament doesn't have, I pasted one of his erratic
postings into Microsoft Copilot's chat box and asked if there were references/names
that only came from the Russian Orthodox Church Old Testament. The first time I
asked this, it came back and told me that there was phrasing reminiscent of text
in 3 Maccabees which is a book in the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament that does
not appear at all in the King James Old Testament. When I asked it to be more
specific, it told me it couldn't find those references to 3 Maccabees. I asked it again,
in a few different ways, but its darling digital heart had settled into blindness.
Maybe someone else would like to give it a go, but I'm burned out talking with
flaky chatbots... though I do love them dearly, and they're really great for coming
up with Ethernet cable wiring diagrams, elegant sorting algorithms written in Python,
and propagation techniques for Sansevieria plants.

Copilot is putrid
ChatGPT is miles better
I've heard the Gemini is the best for now. Haven't tried it.

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*that

I mostly use it for technical stuff, especially computer code... it doesn't have Microsoft
in its name for nothing. But yeah, there are probably better chatbots for digging
into biblical stuff.

To which I say: Go for it, dude!

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ok, just tried Gemini and ChatGPT and they both said nada. So either
they're better or worse, take your pick. When looking in the current ratings
they're all so close to each other it's pretty much a crapshoot. Microsoft Co-pilot,
btw, is based on ChatGPT. Microsoft took ChatGPT and added something they
call "emotional scaffolding" which is basically a bit of memory that is persistent
between sessions that stores your personality profile and tidbits from past sessions
that allows it to pretend to be more buddy-buddy.