AI Research Assistant - Not just smarter search
What I would like to have:
- Select a Scripture reference → ask for “Research Commentaries [Select which ones to consider]: <user question/guidance for the AI>”.
- It answers with report over all my purchased commentaries, distilling an answer with links to the sources, showing where they disagree, express level of confidence regarding each conclusion"
It would be great if this could be implemented on-device (e.g. using future Apple AI technology.
If it would be possible to have an CLI / MPC access to my purchased data (authorized by my Accordance account) to use the data via 3rd party AI tools (e.g. Claude), this would be awesome.
Else, I would be completely open to pay for this as a subscription where the AI model is running on Accordance servers (to control access to the licensed data) and create an additional revenue stream for you.
I really hope this is coming.
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You may be able to do this already with ChatGPT. I find that if I go to ChatGPT & ask a Biblical intepretation question or Greek/Hebrew question, I get amazingly good results, not packed with woke or anti-Christian bias either. For example, you could ask ChatGPT to compare the interpretations of some question in a list of commentaries. How do pre-tribbers interpret this verse as compared with Post-Toastie eaters' interpretations? How do Calvinists interpret John 3:16 compared with Arminians? Which commentaries interpret the construct of noun X in in what ways in Hezekiah 12:36. Today I asked for how annihilationists interpret the verses which eternal torture damnationists consider proof texts. I got a great list with the arguments of each side.
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The thing is that I want to have answers with references to my library, not generic answers. I'm already using general purpose LLMs to get a starting point, but I also need to look at the sources. And here ChatGTP etc don't help.
If Accordance would provide an AI access to the bought library, this would be really valuable. It would motivate to buy more (because finding something is easier) and I would be willing to pay for this as a subscription.1 -
Frankly, I hope Accordance does not waste any time seriously trying to integrate machine learning into their software. I'd much rather have better and better tools for precise searches. I'd be fine if they made a simple way for people who care about LLMs to use their own models, but I just switched from Logos to Accordance because Logos is investing in useless AI slop like “Logos teen.”
A tool like Gemini notebook has it's use cases, namely menial tasks, but I never use it for serious theological, exegetical, and scholarly work.
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Yes, please don't integrate AI just to have “AI” in it or to produce output, so no “sermon generator”.
But AI has his use-cases as we're all happy to move from “concordances” to “search”. Where Accordance is in a great position is to support serious theological work is by ensuring that the research is based on bought content and referencing it properly, so a human can do the work that only a human should do.0 -
I am adamantly opposed to ANY AI integration in Accordance. Seeing how this has been done at Logos is what has driven me back to Accordance and appreciating Accordance's focus on the text of Scripture and the original languages. Logos has become more and more focused on “gimmicky” software and much less focused on serious scholarly study of the original languages. Please don't travel down this road Accordance. Just focus on refining the tools we have here for the study of the original languages.
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