Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
I hope someone can tell me that this is a hoax:
www.nbcnews.com
“Deus in machina” was developed by a team at the Immersive Realities Research Lab at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well the chapel's theologian, Marco Schmid.
“Many people came to talk with him,” Schmid said, adding that around 900 conversations between the machine and people of “all ages” had been registered.
“What was really interesting to see [was] that the people really talked with him in a serious way,” Schmid said.
I hope I don't have to explain what a really bad idea this is.
In a way, I suppose it is a continuation of the idea of church official as the arbiter and explainer to laypersons of what God expects. That was bad enough, but at least those who follow that know or should know that priests, imams, rabbis, schwamis, etc. are flawed human beings. Faith in AI meets faith in God is a recipe for disaster.
'Deus in machina': Swiss church installs AI Jesus to connect the digital and the divine
“Many people came to talk with him,” said Marco Schmid, the theologian at St. Peter's Chapel in the Swiss city of Lucerne.
“Deus in machina” was developed by a team at the Immersive Realities Research Lab at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well the chapel's theologian, Marco Schmid.
“Many people came to talk with him,” Schmid said, adding that around 900 conversations between the machine and people of “all ages” had been registered.
“What was really interesting to see [was] that the people really talked with him in a serious way,” Schmid said.
I hope I don't have to explain what a really bad idea this is.
In a way, I suppose it is a continuation of the idea of church official as the arbiter and explainer to laypersons of what God expects. That was bad enough, but at least those who follow that know or should know that priests, imams, rabbis, schwamis, etc. are flawed human beings. Faith in AI meets faith in God is a recipe for disaster.