For OSV Publisher Scott Richert, sitting by the pool at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island recently caused him to think about the 1980 movie “Somewhere in Time,” which was filmed at the hotel and tells the story of a playwright who
At the beginning of every Mass, when the priest says to us, “Brothers and sisters, let us call to mind our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries,” what do you think of? In the modern world, we associate
Publisher Scott Richert explores how, through the readings at Mass, the Church connects the resurrection of Our Lord with the gift he’s given us in the Eucharist: “Immediately after Easter, the Church presents us with the various resurrection narratives, the evidence from
The promise of generative artificial intelligence — ChatGPT and similar projects — is, as Scott Richert has written recently, likely to be far less than its proponents claim or its detractors fear, precisely because what AI generates is not truly something new
In the latest in his series of columns on generative artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT, OSV Publisher Scott Richert writes that one of the key limitations of AI is its inability to comprehend the historical meaning of words. “Such insights are
OSV Publisher Scott Richert explores the limitations of artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT and the key difference between such programs and our ability to think rationally: “The real danger of generative AI isn’t that it will learn to think for itself;
OSV Publisher Scott Richert looks at the new generation of AI programs that have been released recently, including ChatGPT. Many people in the media and otherwise are predicting that AI can change the world for the better. Don’t expect it, Richert writes:
OSV Publisher Scott Richert writes of the importance of Catholics in America providing an authentic witness of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. “Here in the United States, in 2023, 17 percent of all baptized Catholics attend Mass every Sunday.
The results from the latest World Values Survey, summarized by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), shows the decline in Mass attendance in the U.S. For every 10 people who were at Mass every Sunday in 2019, 3 are
Publisher Scott Richert writes that “fiction, like poetry, is the most important thing one can read outside of Scripture … Good fiction feeds and shapes the moral imagination, helping us to explore what it means to be human without reenacting in our