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  • Antony Brennan
    Antony Brennan Member Posts: 777 ✭✭✭
    edited January 31
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1356029#Comment_1356029

    Being as explicit as possible is always best for reasonable people. It might be useful for the results page to say it is not exhaustive or to have a link to a more comprehensive info page.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,036

    @Mark Barnes (Logos)

     Would it help to have a support article or FAQ that explained more about how our AI tools worked? If so, what sort of questions should that cover?

    A support article would be very useful - but not essential. What I consider essential is a warning on the results as there is on the synopsis. I feel strongly about this because I have found the Bible search will sometimes return results for nonsense questions.

    What a support article should contain:

    • your description of the all search is an excellent example
    • illustrations - create ex nililo or based on resource?
    • synopsis - how to turn off, using references, how to influence sources, how sources sent to AI engine are chosen
    • questions - using references, how to influence sources, how sources sent to AI engine are chosen
    • translation - how engine is chosen, why Greek doesn't work
    • Bible search - from bible text only or what Logos/library data

    What AI have I forgotten?

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,902 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 1
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1356036#Comment_1356036

    I know this is going to come as a big surprise (cat, bag, oh my!) but I don't have access to the Logos AI. But I DO come from a tradition that spins out verses at a high rate of speed, weaving a sermon that just can't be argued. It's easy for me to see a trusting user, input a quick (simple) doctrinal question, pulling the verses, and off they go. So, saying it's just verses, ignores how some traditions work.

    Now, personally I don't care … that cat's around here somewhere. But I'd think some type of caution to the targeted audience (well beyond pastors/academic) is needed. Logos isn't just a mindless go-getter. MJ mentions a caution on the bottom of the synopsis??

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Aaron Hamilton
    Aaron Hamilton Member Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1356127#Comment_1356127

    I agree the warning is good. I would only advocate that it be added to All and Books search as well, where in my view it is even more needed.

    It is true that providing verses in response to a question would suggest that those verses in some way answer the question. This has the potential to be misleading.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,036

    @DMB

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    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,902 ✭✭✭✭

    That looks like what's needed (in my view).

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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