This is severely muddied by the fact that we make them emit text in the first person as though there’s a guy there and decided the best interface for them is a chat bot. This didn’t have to be the case and I believe it severely warps our understanding of what this technology is.

I think many people see LLMs as a step along a teleological path to the kind of “powerful AI” that’s been foretold in fiction for decades, and the empirical evidence if you scrutinize it carefully suggests something different and very unintuitive.

Watch this space for new announcements of new stuff coming on Episcopal Chant somewhat soon. Not sure how much we've plugged here, but for those gearing up for any sort of chant planning: episcopalchant.com ⚓

I am sponsoring a friend for baptism in two weeks. In your charity, pray for the baptizand, and for me! ⚓

Tomorrow! See you there!

Hi Narthex - I am giving an EPN webinar on Thursday for the AI subcommittee of the Task Force for AI & IP. It will be a plain-language introduction to how modern AI works, aiming to equip you to apply appropriate skepticism & tell good ideas from bad. I know the topic is hot for many. Do come! ⚓

We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless, but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us,

I said to @dljohnston.bsky.social before recording that if at any time I sounded like one of those crazy yarn-wall conspiracy people while explaining, just stop me! Very thankful to get to talk with him on All Things Necessary. Maybe of interest for all who want to know about modern TEC history! ⚓

Help me make good on desire to post here more! I have been writing aggressively but do not wish to deluge the feed...

27th December is the feast of St John the Apostle and Evangelist who is depicted here with his symbol. #StJohn BL Egerton 608; the Four Gospels; 11th century; Echternach; f.133v

Early New Year's resolution to post here more?? I am very bad at keeping up with more than one spot, but miss you all!

Just to follow up here since I know people are interested in the topic: the meeting was extraordinarily fruitful, and I look forward to getting things from the committee to you all and to GC over the next year. Thanks to all for your prayers! ⚓

Where should the church say, “Thus far and no further”? Few are truly equipped to assess the deadlock, but as a speech and language AI researcher and a churchwoman, I will attempt the task. @arliecoles.bsky.social www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

Episcopalians: your Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property is meeting in person this week! Keep us in your prayers. ⚓

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: ACNA Archbishop Steve Wood is accused of making sexual advances toward a staff member at his South Carolina church, as well as financial impropriety, plagiarism, and bullying. livingchurch.org/news/news-an...

Ecclesiastical and other news getting rough? Do you need a laugh? You do? I know you do. Give the cautionary tale of poor Canon Babbit a read at @earthandaltarmag.com and then make solid and dutiful plans to say your office! ⚓ earthandaltarmag.com/posts/hbkwnd...

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social : Bishop Derek Jones’ lawyers describe the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces & Chaplaincy as a business offering chaplaincy endorsements and allege the ACNA owes millions for trademark infringement and unfair competition. livingchurch.org/news/inhibit...

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The ACNA's Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy has attempted to secede from that church as its bishop, the Rt. Rev Derek Jones, faces allegations of misconduct. livingchurch.org/news/acna-in...

This book is now out! If you are a cleric or love a cleric, and you need a laugh (and it's clear we all do), and you'd like to support Canadian ecclesiastical art, then consider picking it up! ⚓

Shameless plug for an upcoming book from St. Lazarus Press! Coming August 26: CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CAREFUL CLERICS, a new volume of humorous poetry that warns of clerical errors and their often lethal, always hilarious consequences. If you like Mascall & Belloc, you'll like this. ⚓

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social : Troubled by an accusation of procedural misconduct, ACNA Bp. Stewart Ruch's closed trial has had three chief prosecutors in as many weeks. ⚓ livingchurch.org/news/news-an...

In your charity, please pray for a friend's family member who is sick, in pain, and will likely reach the end in the next few days. ⚓

Each time a new set of AI stories begin to circulate: pray for us and pray again! ⚓

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The trial of ACNA Bp. Stewart Ruch has been halted by the sudden resignation of its prosecutor after a member of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop allegedly improperly questioned a prosecution's witness for over an hour. livingchurch.org/news/news-an...

The ecclesiastical trial of #ACNA bishop Stewart Ruch is slated to begin July 14. #news #Anglican

New for @livingchurch.bsky.social: The trial of Bp. Stewart Ruch III begins today. He is the second ACNA bishop to be tried and will face charges involving alleged mishandling of sexual abuse disclosures & habitual promotion of abusive ministers in his diocese. livingchurch.org/news/news-ep...

Anglo-Catholics! 🕯️ You know and love this Anglican chant setting of the Angelus. But you never know where to find it or how to get just the parts of it you want. Well, fear no more. All in one spot here, sized for bulletin insert: chanted-angelus-e22ada.gitlab.io ⚓

Episcopalians: Your Task Force on AI & IP continues to work! Please keep on praying for us. ⚓

I wrote about a proposed canonical change in the ACNA that will come before the Provincial Council in about a week. The change involves codifying how legislation gets proposed -- *away* from the actual members of the legislature. ⬇️

I am once again begging. This sort of thing is inherent in how LMs work.

TEC friends here and not the other place, please consider following @acnatoo.bsky.social, who do great work at cataloguing and calling for change regarding misconduct in the ACNA. People from other backgrounds who find themselves in the ACNA and hit this need support and prayers from, yes, TEC. ⚓

I ought to post here more.

For those interested in Episcopal - Reformed Episcopal - ACNA history: I wrote about the early history of Cranmer Theological House, an REC seminary built with help from conservative Episcopalians & used to pilot many interesting ecclesiastical techniques in the 90s: livingchurch.org/history/cons...

Shameless advertising for St. Lazarus Press and St. John the Evangelist in Montreal: pick up Francis Trench's meditation on St. John in observance of his feast before the Latin Gate! 15% off! www.amazon.com/Life-Charact...

Hi friends! Back from my Easter break with a Substack to share, about the misconduct policies in the Anglican Diocesan of Montreal. There have been questions lately about their suitability...and I have found that they are deeply, profoundly broken.

HELL TOOK A BODY, AND DISCOVERED GOD! ⚓

Friends, if you're keeping watch at the altar of repose tonight, please remember there a friend's grandfather who is acutely ill. ⚓

Where do I need to go to church in New Orleans for one Sunday? Is St Anna's the move? ⚓

The Annunciation by John Collier. Not often you get a depiction of this event set in Dallas suburbia: ⚓

Friends who responded to General Convention's Task Force on AI & Intellectual Property's survey: thank you for responding! I want all of you to know that your responses are well in hand and we very much appreciate the time you took in providing them. ⚓

Go tell THAT FOX, ⚓

Many small EOW suggestions I think could gain broad-base support if proposed. For instance, this threefold petition for the branches of the US government in the litany, instead of for the President only (I would reword, but concept is very good):

I really think the idea of other Anglican churches being in a situation where there's such a thing as a "BCP parish" (as opposed to other books) is foreign to Episcopalians. It's a situation I hope TEC does not walk into!

Also: it's never just "two books" as a compromise instead of one. It may start that way, but soon it will be three, or fifty with various little splintered resources and options, and literally no one is on the same page. 🧵

My very spicy and totally contrary take to my friend @danielbentley.bsky.social: the "one book" insistence of Rite I and Rite II bound in one volume in 1979 is a major contributor to the shred of liturgical unity TEC has left, cf BAS/BCP splits in Canada, CW/BCP in CofE, etc. 🧵

If you want to support our Canadian Anglican friends, don't forget about St. Lazarus Press! The Press is a ministry of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Montreal, the historic Anglo-Catholic mother church of Quebec. All proceeds support the parish's work. www.redroof.ca/st-lazarus-p... ⚓

I urge everyone to pray for friends in the Episcopal diocese in Wyoming, who will vote tomorrow at a Special Convention on whether or not to accept Bp. Todd Ousley as their bishop provisional until they can begin a search and election for their own bishop. www.episcopalwy.org/special-conv... ⚓

Ad in a 1980 diocesan journal, and I wish I knew what it was about. ⚓

The Presiding Bishop is speaking my language as a researcher.

Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie visits Dallas, 1989. Confirmands in Irving gave him a Stetson.