The Clochán

  First off, I want to make perfectly clear, I am not a luddite. I am not opposed to technology. In fact I embrace technology and enjoy technology. I use it each and every day in my role as a priest for study, communication, teaching, and worship. I appreciate technology's ability to connect us and help us learn more about the world and our professions, especially those of us in specialized professions where knowledge spans multiple centuries, multiple cultures, and multiple continents. The ability to type, search, and learn is a gift to those of us who take our vocations seriously.  That said, I am very suspicious of ChatCPT, which is a product of OpenAI . For those of you who are unfamiliar with this technology, what ChatCPT does is take a question or a statement such as "give me 1,000 words on the influence of pre-Socratic philosophy on 20th century philosophy" and it will generate an essay, in a matter of second on the topic you requested...Don't believe me, I hav...