Rabbi Yaakov Musheyev - Chat GPT

so if I gave you a pill and I said you take this pill you'll know just as much maybe even more as uh chat uh GPT imagine that you take it and uh people come over to you and ask you questions uh and you know it instantly and you give them paragraphs long paragraphs short paragraphs whatever they want you got it imagine you know the answer to every question you know and I was thinking about this what if I was a chat GPT would I be a happier person would that be something that I should wish for wow just know everything so the answer is you know it could a lot of knowledge a lot of wisdom could help in life but I feel like it really only helps if the person is a good person what is a good person right you ask different religions different groups different you know parts of the world what is a good person each person has a different definition for you the definition of the Torah and the definition of the rabbis especially if you look in the books uh that are in the category of mustar self-development their idea of a good person is a person who has worked on his character traits and defeated bad ones and has developed good ones that's the definition of a good person that's for sure in hashem's eyes and without that so having tons and tons of wisdom is really not that helpful because now you're using your wisdom to let's say you have a bad character trait you know and you like to hurt people you know and uh get into fights and stuff like that so you you are smarter now and you could use your wisdom to uh to hurt people more um so wisdom is definitely not something that we're chasing in it of itself it's within the context of good character traits because without that it's just the pursuit of money or a fancy car that makes a lot of noise or whatever a person is chasing after in this life um if a person doesn't have what it takes to use that tool with well then what's going to happen is he's just going to use that tool for bad so we have to make ourselves number one into good into good people and then try to use and uh and develop all these other tools um and uh that's why if you're looking closely at the Torah we'll see first and foremost what Hashem cares about is our character development and then everything else kind of comes second um really in in order to develop our character traits in a healthy way in a consistent way we need the Torah because all these other methods are really either straight copy copy uh and paste from the Torah to English and in these uh books that are coming out now or they're just not helpful so unless we're looking into resources we're not really going to get help with defeating our bad character traits and learning good ones and we really have so many opportunities to do this and um we should further our investigation and looking for good methods to work on ourselves and continue working