The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. Psalms 119:130
Much has been said about AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its effects on human behavior. On one side, a recent study showed that this will be the first time in human history where young people are not more intelligent than their parents (not in my family, of course 🙂 – apparently this assessment is because young people today are excessively dependent of technology. Some specialists wisely say that the use of AI should be not to retrieve answers but to stretch our thinking.
Sounds good to me.
Recently we placed a search online for “Portuguese Bible Versions”. Google AI gave us a list of Bibles and stated the advantages of one version over other versions, etc. We noticed that at least some of the information was what we have stated in an article we placed on our website, more than a decade ago. Therefore, the only intelligence here was the art of copying work already produced. Someone said that AI does not have the Holy Spirit, and obviously cannot discern what is a good Bible version from what is a bad or corrupted Bible version.
Of course not.
Meanwhile, we took some time to search for audio Bibles in different languages. We were happy to find out that in most languages we searched for, Wordproject showed up as first or second option and certaily always on the first page of the search. We praise God for that.
Although not a surprise, we also found our APP being used by another entity and available on some APK platform. This is basically the charater of the Internet and we have learned to live with it.
From Africa we received the following email:
'Hey! I live in Nairobi Kenya where there are a lot of Somali people. I am looking to print some small gospel of Matthew booklets in their languages and I was wondering if you are willing to grant us permission to use your translation to print them. I don’t want to cause any copyright issues. Let me know any thoughts you guys have and thank you for what you do!' -
As usual, we do not mind, and actually encourage the use of our resources for evangelization.
Our Tik Tok is going: slowly but surely:
Youtube shorts interest is up again:
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One of our main jobs is to maintain and upkeep our online presence. There are corrrections, updates, changes, errors and server related issues always to be fixed. We are thankful that we have help with many of these tasks: faithful people who love the Lord and His Word and want to make sure that millions of people all over the world (over 6 million, this month) can read or hear the Bible in their own languages.
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Love and Prayers
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