In a world where the past’s emperors had courts of brilliant minds, today’s technology offers a fascinating twist. OpenAI‘s innovations allow you to craft your personal guru and engage in profound conversations.
I have often felt that a common person’s quality of life today is better than what any emperor had in the past. A common person today has access to potable water, has cures to numerous infectious diseases, and is not constantly worried about war, natural disasters, or famine.However, one luxury that the Kings and Emperors of the past had was the ability to assemble a court of brilliant minds and engage with them on any topic, to learn, to grow, or to simply satisfy their curiosity. As technology has advanced so much, it does motivate the question if we are at a point where we can all have our own personalized gurus. Can everyone today have a personalized 24-hour on-demand, Krishna, or Vashisht, or Ashtavakra?
While the internet makes much of the world’s information accessible, it feels like a library that you have to browse through vs. having an expert share wisdom that is personalized for you, when you want. ChatGPT on the other hand has essentially reimagined how people can interact with all the knowledge in the world, but it is generic as it is trained on a broad corpus and not fine-tuned for you.
However, there are two recent technological advances by Open AI that make it possible to build your own personal guru, in fact to have two dozen like Sage Dattatreya once had. The first capability that Open AI rolled out on its developer day on Nov 6, 2023, was the ability to create your own GPT. With just a few prompts, you can create your own GPT, give it a persona, fine-tune the corpus of information it uses to answer, customize the answering style and also upload files that it can add to its knowledge. So, for instance, you can ask the GPT to answer spiritual questions to earnest seekers drawing from the Bhagwad Gita, Ashtavakra Gita, and perhaps the teachings of a recent sage like Ramana Maharshi. You can further ask it to share parables, poems, and songs. And if you had access to a series of questions and answers that you had with a spiritual master, you can upload those files to update the GPT’s knowledge base.
The second capability that Open AI rolled out Nov 21, 2023, was the launch of voice for all users. With the chat GPT app, you can put on your headphones and get lost in hours of deep conversation with your personalized guru(s).
Wow! Who would have thought that the biggest luxury in life “having your own personal guru” would be just a few prompts away. Which brings me to the key point about technology. The Gita repeatedly advocates rising above seeing things as good or bad. When you stop seeing things, people and events through the narrow prism of duality (good or bad), you can see it for what it is. Everything in the world is there to be of service, to spread love, to help you in your evolution. Technology, as it is part of everything, is there for the same reasons – all you need is to master how you wield it. And since everything includes you, that is indeed your purpose – to be of service, to spread love, to evolve and to help others evolve.
If you want to try a Guru GPT that is fine-tuned on Hinduism and Buddhism try out Sage Insights
I have often felt that a common person’s quality of life today is better than what any emperor had in the past. A common person today has access to potable water, has cures to numerous infectious diseases, and is not constantly worried about war, natural disasters, or famine.However, one luxury that the Kings and Emperors of the past had was the ability to assemble a court of brilliant minds and engage with them on any topic, to learn, to grow, or to simply satisfy their curiosity. As technology has advanced so much, it does motivate the question if we are at a point where we can all have our own personalized gurus. Can everyone today have a personalized 24-hour on-demand, Krishna, or Vashisht, or Ashtavakra?
While the internet makes much of the world’s information accessible, it feels like a library that you have to browse through vs. having an expert share wisdom that is personalized for you, when you want. ChatGPT on the other hand has essentially reimagined how people can interact with all the knowledge in the world, but it is generic as it is trained on a broad corpus and not fine-tuned for you.
However, there are two recent technological advances by Open AI that make it possible to build your own personal guru, in fact to have two dozen like Sage Dattatreya once had. The first capability that Open AI rolled out on its developer day on Nov 6, 2023, was the ability to create your own GPT. With just a few prompts, you can create your own GPT, give it a persona, fine-tune the corpus of information it uses to answer, customize the answering style and also upload files that it can add to its knowledge. So, for instance, you can ask the GPT to answer spiritual questions to earnest seekers drawing from the Bhagwad Gita, Ashtavakra Gita, and perhaps the teachings of a recent sage like Ramana Maharshi. You can further ask it to share parables, poems, and songs. And if you had access to a series of questions and answers that you had with a spiritual master, you can upload those files to update the GPT’s knowledge base.
The second capability that Open AI rolled out Nov 21, 2023, was the launch of voice for all users. With the chat GPT app, you can put on your headphones and get lost in hours of deep conversation with your personalized guru(s).
Wow! Who would have thought that the biggest luxury in life “having your own personal guru” would be just a few prompts away. Which brings me to the key point about technology. The Gita repeatedly advocates rising above seeing things as good or bad. When you stop seeing things, people and events through the narrow prism of duality (good or bad), you can see it for what it is. Everything in the world is there to be of service, to spread love, to help you in your evolution. Technology, as it is part of everything, is there for the same reasons – all you need is to master how you wield it. And since everything includes you, that is indeed your purpose – to be of service, to spread love, to evolve and to help others evolve.
If you want to try a Guru GPT that is fine-tuned on Hinduism and Buddhism try out Sage Insights