AI Technology, Society, Application to Lutheran and Late Antiquity Scholarship
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all the current rage. It is a large subject from its technical aspects to the many applications it is finding. It is already disrupting many big tech companies and their expensive software engineering staffs. But it is likely to disrupt many other industries and companies over the coming years.
Having myself applied this tool in my work place, it is amazing in the way it can change a technical workflow and for some tasks 10x improvement in productivity is no lie. Watching the better AI models build, deploy, test, debug, and do it again in a cycle by itself until it reaches a solution and accomplish something in 10 minutes it would have taken you hours to do, is remarkable. And it is probably SW engineers who see and feel this most intensely right now as it is their jobs which are directly in the line of site.
However, as with any new powerful tool there is a learning curve in how to apply it. The risks of over enthusiastic application and lack of careful governance can already be seen in the recent experience at Amazon and others. But as with any new technology it marches forward and as with all things in this world: for better and for worse.
I will attempt to keep track of some noteworthy news developments at X @ai_lutheran but also to apply this directly to my area of scholarship: The words and arguments of Early Christianity and Christendom, the Lutheran Reformation, and 19th century American Lutheranism.
See M D Nispel as @ai_lutheran on X.