Richard Zhang - Research Insights on Redemptive Use Cases

To start of the afternoon sessions, Richard Zhang opened us in prayer. He’ll be discussing how the technologies we develop should and can point to Jesus.

Founder of Christians in AI

Industry 5.0 is currently happening (started in 2020)

Autoraters are/have replaced humans as the feedback/raters. They rate how good a summary was.

Reasoning has empowered agentic workflows

Reasoning should

Based on the upside-down triangle photo, there are ways we can train our models. He will focus on prompt engineering.

  • Rubric design
    • large prompt design because models are becoming more resilient to prompting
  • Automatic Prompt Optimization (see photo for the paper that drives his work)

Agentic workflows aren’t taking value away from humans.

  • They are showing the ways that we place value on things that aren’t of biblical importance.
    • His example was AI Agents being able to review academic papers just like human reviewers.

Some say

  • AI will make us Gods (or like God)
  • AI will make us useless

But if we use it well, it will enable us to do the redemptive work of God

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