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Can LLMs accurately recall the Bible?

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223 points benkaiser | 1 comments | 29 Dec 24 03:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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asim ◴[29 Dec 24 06:22 UTC] No.42538054[source]▶
I had similar thoughts about using it for the Quran. I think this highlights you have to be very specific in your use cases especially when expecting an exact response on static text that shouldn't change. This is why I'm trying something a bit different. I've generated embeddings for the Quran and use chromem-go for this. So I'll ask the index the question first based on a similarity search and then feed the results in as context to an LLM. But in the response I'll still sight the references so I can see what they were. It's not perfect but a first step towards something. I think they call this RAG.

What I'm working on https://reminder.dev

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1. 2tim47 ◴[30 Dec 24 10:57 UTC] No.42548243[source]▶
i had written the following in response to a comment that got flagged and has now disappeared. Nevertheless, make of this what you will:

In my opinion, based on verses 17:36, 5:118, 46:15, 96:15-16 and 17:13-15 of the Quran viz "...And We have fastened every man's deeds to his neck, and on the Day of Resurrection, We shall bring out for him a book which he will find wide open. [It will be said], Read your record. You yourself are sufficient as a reckoner against you this Day. Whoever is guided is only guided for [the benefit of] his soul. And whoever errs only errs against it. And no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another...", it is solely dishonesty and wilfully committing injustice that will cause a person to judge against himself/herself and earn a place in Hell. So it is not necessary that only 'muslims' can enter Heaven or be Successful. The criterion is the application of sense/reasoning and not being swayed by that which is convenient (being born into a religion, peer pressure, personal convenience, prejudice, etc.). In my opinion, i believe that fate is influenced by how steadfastly a person holds on to Reason and Justice. So prejudiced people end up committing deeds that will lead them to Hell like willful falsification and obtuseness. So even 'muslims' who choose the path of hypocrisy can end up in the lowest layers of Hell (Quran 4:145) and non-muslims can also go to Heaven (Quran 5:118). Anybody can understand this, because it makes sense. Sadly in the case of Abrahamic religions, the exegetic literature like Midrash and Tafsir muddy that which is clear. How ironic? But then again, there is a pertinent verse (3:7) in the Quran in this regard: "He it is Who hath revealed unto thee the Scripture wherein are clear revelations - they are the substance of the Book - and others (which are) allegorical. As for those in whose hearts is deviation [from truth], they will follow that of it which is unspecific, seeking discord and seeking an interpretation [suitable to them]..." There is a thin book at https://archive.org/details/TheAmazingQuran.pdf by a mathematician not of muslim origin where he examines the Quran from a logical standpoint which can be a starting point followed by the papers at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=wmRDl-4AAAAJ on computational analysis of the Quran (including with neural networks) before the ChatGPT era.