One of the reasons why I began working on this site was to help organise the curated playlists of AI-generated worship music I’ve been working on.
Here’s a link to an ever-expanding set of my playlists on Suno.
I’ve tried to categorise them as:
Feel free to explore them: remix, experiment with your own ideas and comment on or like any individual songs or playlists while you are there.
I’m a teacher. I teach high school computer science at one of many thousands of international schools around the world. I began my journey following Jesus in the early 1980s as a teenager. I often reflect on the fact that as humans, we are made in God’s image. Therefore as God is a creator, we too are driven to create, to make, to build. It’s in our nature. Whether we do so with code or with clay is immaterial. What is important is that we do. It’s an essential aspect of worship.
As Eric Liddell put it, “I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure”. What do you do; that gives you that unmistakable tingle, that feeling of “this is what I was born to do”? The same assurance that led the Apostle Paul to write, “Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God,” in his letter to the church in Rome.
I feel like that when I code, when I teach, when I share the good news about Jesus Christ, when I create imaginative craft activities. I want to continually improve at my craft, to become more effective and to use any tool at my disposal to do so.
Which brings me to the creative use of artificial intelligence. As a teacher, I recognise its power as one of many technologies available to me and my students. We’ve used it in classes where appropriate; and also in extra-curricular activities. We’ve shared new applications as we’ve come across them.
This is where the journey has led so far. I’m keen to explore it further and share different milestones along the way.
From time to time, you will see a range of images. None of them actually exist. They are all created using generative AI – usually Stable Diffusion.
I use machine learning tools to help me understand my relationship with my Creator. This can take many forms. Currently I’m exploring the use of Suno to create worship experiences. One purpose of this blog is to curate that in a way that is easier to navigate. Along the way, I plan to discuss some of the theological arguments for and against using machine learning as an aid in exploring spirituality.