Open Al Crafts Your Guru For Ultimate Answers

 

Open Al Crafts Your Guru For Ultimate Answers

From the books of Speaking Tree

I have often felt that a common person's quality of life today is better than what any emperor had in the past. A common person today has access to potable water, has cures for numerous infectious diseases and is not constantly worried about war, natural disasters, or famine. However, one luxury that the kings and emperors of the past had was the ability to assemble a court of brilliant minds and engage with them on any topic, to learn, to grow or to simply satisfy their curiosity. As technology has advanced so much, it makes one wonder whether we have arrived at a point where we all can have our own personalised gurus. Can everyone today have a personalised, 24-hour-on-demand Krishn, Vashisht, or an Ashtavakra?

While the internet makes much of the world's information accessible, it feels like a library that you have to browse through versus having an expert share wisdom that is personalised for you, when you want. ChatGPT, on the other hand, has essentially reimagined how people can interact with all the knowledge in the world, but it is generic as it is trained on a broad corpus and not fine-tuned for you.

 However, two recent technological advancements by Open Al can make it possible to build your own personal guru, in fact, to have two dozens of them, like Sage Dattatreya once had. The first capability that Open Al rolled out on its developer day on November 6, 2023, was the ability to create your own GPT. With just a few prompts, you can create your own GPT,give it a persona, fine-tune the corpus of information it uses to answer, customise the answering style and also upload files that it can add to its knowledge. So, for instance, you can ask GPT to answer spiritual questions by earnest seekers, drawing from the Bhagwad Gita, Ashtavakra Gita and perhaps the tea- chings of a recent sage like Ramana Maharshi. You can

 

further ask it to share parables, had access to a series of ques tion-and-answer sessions with a spiritual master, you could upload those files to update the GPT's knowledge base.

The second capability that Open Al rolled out on November 21, 2023, was the launch of voice for all users. With the ChatGPT app, you can put on your headphones and get lost in hours of deep conversation with your personalised guru(s).

Wow! Who would have thought that the biggest luxury in life "having your own personal guru" would be just a few prompts away. Which brings me to the key point about technology. The Gita repeatedly advocates rising above seeing things as good or bad. When you stop seeing things, people, and events through the narrow prism of duality good or bad, you can see it for what it is. Everything in the world is there to be of service, to spread love, to help you in your evolution. Technology as it is part of everything, is there for the same reasons-all you need is to master how you wield it. And since everything includes you, that is indeed your purpose-to be of service, to spread love, to evolve and to help others evolve.