Can Logos do this with AI?
I have not been a subscriber yet, so I have not had a chance to try any of the AI capabilities.
I have had two things in the back of my mind that I think it would be helpful to be able to do:
With English Bible translations:
Similar to the text compare tool for English Bible translations, but sorting them for uniqueness. Because so many translations are similar. Rather than choosing a few translations and comparing word for word ... choose a large collection of translations ... the results would be a list, beginning with the most unique and/or different translation, by verse or chapter ... Does Logos already have a way to do this?
With commentaries:
Starting with a large collection of commentaries. As we all know, commentaries contain a lot of redundancy. Can AI help with sorting through all the commentaries on a certain verse or range of verses ... and again show which of the commentaries have unique information not contained in the others. Maybe it could list major points statistically with a list of the commentaries which contain similar information, followed by more unique information. The idea would be to allow you to quickly and easily see which commentaries have unique or more rare information. Can any of the AI tools already do this?
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John said:
I have not been a subscriber yet, so I have not had a chance to try any of the AI capabilities.
I have had two things in the back of my mind that I think it would be helpful to be able to do:
With English Bible translations:
Similar to the text compare tool for English Bible translations, but sorting them for uniqueness. Because so many translations are similar. Rather than choosing a few translations and comparing word for word ... choose a large collection of translations ... the results would be a list, beginning with the most unique and/or different translation, by verse or chapter ... Does Logos already have a way to do this?
With commentaries:
Starting with a large collection of commentaries. As we all know, commentaries contain a lot of redundancy. Can AI help with sorting through all the commentaries on a certain verse or range of verses ... and again show which of the commentaries have unique information not contained in the others. Maybe it could list major points statistically with a list of the commentaries which contain similar information, followed by more unique information. The idea would be to allow you to quickly and easily see which commentaries have unique or more rare information. Can any of the AI tools already do this?
To the first question... I am thinking the "Text Comparison Tool" in Logos does what you are asking about. I suggest working with it a bit and you might find the same thing.
To the 2nd question... I don't know of anything in Logos that compares commentaries. I might be a good tool to have, but I don't think, right now anyway, that Logos does what you want here. For the most part, "I think" everyone has their favorite commentaries they use.
Now someone may know better....
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There are the Exegetical Summaries that compare translations and commentary positions on the larger commentary series published at the time they were written. Lexham Research Commentaries do provide similar content. Not AI and not specific to one's library, but some of this information is available without AI.
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John Fidel said:
There are the Exegetical Summaries that compare translations and commentary positions on the larger commentary series published at the time they were written. Lexham Research Commentaries do provide similar content. Not AI and not specific to one's library, but some of this information is available without AI.
Have you been using UBS Handbooks series or SIL Exegetical Summary Series? They do look like a great place to start a study of a passage in scripture. How do you rate them? Looks like certain major commentaries are covered.
But I was thinking AI could sort through the hundreds of smaller and less comprehensive commentaries for unique information ... I'm sure AI could be programmed to do this.
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John said:
Have you been using UBS Handbooks series or SIL Exegetical Summary Series? They do look like a great place to start a study of a passage in scripture. How do you rate them? Looks like certain major commentaries are covered.
But I was thinking AI could sort through the hundreds of smaller and less comprehensive commentaries for unique information ... I'm sure AI could be programmed to do this.
I have and enjoy both of those commentaries as a starting point or where I want to see how a particular issue is addressed as an overview.
Your suggestion is a good one. I was just offering a work around for the time being.
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Not meaning to hijack this forum. I was wondering with this new AI technology if it would be possible to take a logos resource that uses old English and update it to a modern English resource? Lately, I've been interested (as a layman) in reading from the puritans but found it difficult because of their use of the English language.
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Steven Leavitt said:
if it would be possible to take a logos resource that uses old English and update it to a modern English resource?
It would be possible but is likely not the best technology for doing this.
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That's true. At least I can be grateful that Crossway and Reformation Heritage seem to be interested and dedicated recently to modernize some of these resources lately.
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I have too many commentaries. When I use passage guide I get a list with thousands of resources. It would take forever to look at all of them. Other than prioritization, is there no way to handle this? prioritization would exclude many resources which could potentially be useful ...
An AI synopsis can be generated from a typed question, why could it not be generated from the indexed resources found by the Passage Guide, and then summarized into a single report?
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