around it—the premise of (Sounds True) is bold and unsettling. Poet Iain S. Thomas and researcher Jasmine Wang fed the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence, GPT-3, with some of humanity’s greatest spiritual texts—the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, the poetry of Rumi and Sappho, etc. Then they asked it a series of questions about navigating life: Is happiness possible? How can I be a good parent? Is what I’m doing important? How do I make peace with my body? What is the secret to the creative process? GPT-3’s answers offer insight that is pithy and resounding, much like the source material from which it draws. (Question: “What does it mean to experience be full of wisdom.
