https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -York.htmlAt the end of his sermon, Franklin asks if anyone can guess who wrote it.
Some guess his father, who was a rabbi at Riverdale Temple in the Bronx. Others suggested Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the United Kingdom.
Franklin then revealed, to gasps from the congregation, that the sermon had been written by A.I. program ChatGPT.
He said his prompt was to write a sermon of around 1,000 words, with the idea of intimacy and vulnerability, and quote Brene Brown.
'You're clapping - but I'm definitely afraid,' he said, to laughter.
'I thought truck drivers were going to go long before the rabbi, in terms of losing our positions to artificial intelligence.'
He said he warned it would wipe out 375 million jobs in a decade.
Franklin said that the text was not in his voice, and contained rhetorical flourishes he did not like - but it was impressive.
He noted, however, that it could not be empathetic, and respond to the crowd.
'It can't love it, can't show compassion, it can't connect with the community,' he said.
'What we're really doing is we're forming relationships. I don't think ChatGPT or any kind of artificial intelligence will replace us, but it will push us.
'It'll force us to evolve in what we do and what we do best.'
How long until a machine can beat the best human religious scholars in debates over holy texts?
And how long will it be before killer robots know exactly which Bible quotes to utter right before or during battles to scare their human enemies the most?