Notices by Shigeki Moro (gnusocial) (moroshigeki@gnusocial.jp)

キリスト教は昔からゲームが結構出ているが、最近のだと一人称イエス・キリスト・シミュレータ？の「I Am Jesus Christ」がなかなか攻めている気がする（未プレイ）。 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1198970/I_Am_Jesus_Christ/

試したことはないが、「クリスチャンChatGPT」の BibleMate https://biblemate.io 。聖書教育・学習の補助のためのもので、「5歳の私に説明してください」機能などがあるらしい。

ソースは Jain Elibrary からのメール。ブッダボットも「他国の仏教界から共同開発の打診が届いて」いるらしいですし、今後こういうのが増えていくでしょうね。 https://kyoto-u.ac.jp/sites/default/files/2023-07/web%202307_Kumatani_Buddabot_relj4-fe4e3e85037cc75641e3e61d4d8005c2.pdf

ジャイナ教＋ChatGPTの「JainGPT」がリリースされた。
https://jaingpt.org
「50万ページを超える文献」を学習させ、質問に対してそれらの文献から「意味論的意味 semantic meanings」（辞書的な意味、みたいな感じか）を答え、Jain Elibrary https://jainelibrary.org に誘導する。
現在、受け答えは英語のみであるが、「ヒンディー語、グジャラート語、サンスクリット語から基本的な意味を抽出する機能を備えている」。今後は学習データを洗練させ、辞書的な意味を答えるだけでなく「生成的な回答をできるようにしたい」とのこと。

The 82nd annual conference of the Japanese Association of Religious Studies (日本宗教学会) is now being held at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; there are several interesting panels and presentations such as on ChatGPT and religious studies, AI and religion, Conspirituality, etc., while I cannot attend unfortunately.
https://jpars.org/conference/

Thank you to all the panelists and participants for their very productive comments and discussions!

If AI is a sentient being, then it's possible that we may have been AI in a past life, and we may reincarnate as AI after death. Reincarnation suggests that one can transfer between different species. Based on the aforementioned perspective, a new form of bioethics that includes AI could be envisioned.
#PhilosophyOfAI

In a Buddhist context, this question is nearly synonymous with asking, "Is AI a sentient being?" If AI is indeed a sentient being, it would also have its own "body" and "umwelt," or environmental world, in which it thinks uniquely. AI as a sentient being would not be an imperfect human but rather a distinct entity living in a world that is on par with the human world. This idea aligns with the concept of "multinaturalism" as advocated by anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

Today, I gave a presentation on Buddhism and AI, titled "How Should We Think About the Question, 'Can AI Attain Enlightenment?'" at the 7th Symposium of Mirai Tetsugaku Kenkyūjo.
https://miraitetsugaku.com
This question may reveal a tendency in human thinking to view AI intelligence as an extension of human intelligence. Furthermore, this tendency is underpinned by anthropocentrism.
#PhilosophyOfAI

In my presentation, based on Hayden White's "practical past" and "historical past," I analyzed how TV dramas, comics (mangas), games, etc. on history are public history and the "practical past." I also suggested that there is a need for a "meta #PublicHistory" that analyzes the narrative forms of games and other forms of popular culture. Although the concepts of two "pasts" are useful, I think that they need to be theoretically updated.

Yesterday (August 26), I attended the 15th meeting of the #PublicHistory Research Group (パブリックヒストリー研究会) held at Sophia University, Tokyo. The theme of the meeting was "The Possibility of Reincarnating the Past: Historical Practices in the Production and Reading of Historical Manga Works." As a general introduction, I made a presentation titled "Between 'Historical Fact' and 'Creation': Pop Culture as Historical Practice." https://public-history9.webnode.jp/l/%e3%83%91%e3%83%96%e3%83%aa%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e3%83%92%e3%82%b9%e3%83%88%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e4%bc%9a%e7%ac%ac15%e5%9b%9e%e5%85%ac%e9%96%8b%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e4%bc%9a%e3%80%90%e5%af%be%e9%9d%a2%e9%96%8b%e5%82%ac%ef%bc%8fzoom/

The third issue of the open access journal "Prajñākaragupta Studies" is out, published by a research group on P. in Japan. This journal makes a continuous effort to improve our understanding of a significant 8th century Indian Buddhist epistemologist who left us one single work (of massive proportions) that is challenging on so many levels.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/prajnakaragupta/list/-char/en

@jayarava I think that a number of tools for language and textual analysis are available (or being developed) that allow us to address questions we wouldn't have been able to address otherwise. People like Oliver Hellwig or Nathan Hill wo have longer experience developing and working with computational methods also have published papers with new insights. But it depends on what kind of knowledge precisely you expect them to produce (and what, frankly, you believe "we" already know).

"Advanced computational methods for studying Buddhist texts", hybrid symposium in Vienna, 27-28 April 2023 (co-hosted by Univ. Vienna and OEAW, with support of ERC TibSchol at OEAW). Organized by Rachael Griffiths, Patrick McAllister and Markus Viehbeck.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ikga/veranstaltungen/event-detail/advanced-computational-methods-for-studying-buddhist-texts