Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32701/dp.25.1.2
Religion, Theology, and Philosophical Skills of LLM–Powered Chatbots
Marcin Trepczyński
orcid.org/0000-0003-0612-2597
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
In this study, I demonstrate how religion and theology can be useful for testing the performance of LLMs or LLM–powered chatbots, focusing on the measurement of philosophical skills. I present the results of testing four selected chatbots: ChatGPT, Bing, Bard, and Llama2. I utilize three examples of possible sources of inspiration from religion or theology: 1) the theory of the four senses of Scripture; 2) abstract theological statements; 3) an abstract logic formula derived from a religious text, to show that these sources are good materials for tasks that can effectively measure philosophical skills such as interpretation of a given fragment, creative deductive reasoning, and identification of ontological limitations. This approach enabled sensitive testing, revealing differences among the performances of the four chatbots. I also provide an example showing how we can create a benchmark to rate and compare such skills, using the assessment criteria and simplified scales to rate each chatbot with respect to each criterion.
Keywords
large language models; chatbots; testing; philosophical skills; religion; theology; interpretation; reasoning
Hrčak ID:
313999
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Publication date:
7.2.2024.
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