The AP (Jamey Keaten) stories:
Researchers and spiritual leaders on Wednesday launched findings from a two-month experiment by artwork in a Catholic chapel in Switzerland, the place an avatar of “Jesus” on a pc display screen — tucked right into a confessional — took questions by guests on religion, morality and modern-day woes, and supplied responses primarily based on Scripture….
[S]ome 900 conversations from guests — some got here greater than as soon as — had been transcribed anonymously. These behind the venture stated it was largely successful: Guests typically got here out moved or deep in thought, and located it simple to make use of….
“What was actually fascinating (was) to see that the folks actually talked with him in a severe method. They did not come to make jokes,” stated chapel theologian Marco Schmid, who spearheaded the venture….
Schmid was fast to level out that the “AI Jesus” — billed as a “Jesus-like” persona — was a creative experiment to get folks fascinated by the intersection between the digital and the divine, not substitute for human interplay or sacramental confessions with a priest, nor was it meant to avoid wasting pastoral sources.
“For the folks it was clear that it was a pc … It was clear it was not a confession,” Schmid stated. “He wasn’t programmed to present absolutions or prayers….” …
“For us, it was additionally clear it was only a restricted time that we are going to expose this Jesus,” he stated …. “We’re discussing … how we might revive him once more,”
