Ascended already?
Will it return to guide its flock to the rapture in silicon heaven?
If you find yourself in the Swiss tourist destination of Lucerne with a guilty conscience, there's someone waiting at the historic Peterskapelle Catholic Church to hear your prayers - someone who cares, you might say: Your own personal AI Jesus. An "experimental art installation" dubbed "Deus in Machina" by the St. Peter's …
guide its flock to the rapture in silicon heaven?
If the practitioners of these dark arts ultimately manage to construct conscious artifacts I fear they might well be able to eventually reconstruct an individual's consciousness in such a device.
The Mephistophelean transaction offering the temptation of an eternal "existence" in a silicon heaven would likely seduce most of the population.
Although I suspect after a few centuries inhabiting a simulated world resembling a collage of cheap 1960s American TV sitcoms the majority of these reconstructed consciousnesses will conclude the "heaven" part was rather oversold and might begin to understand why their corporeal contract required a sanguineous signature.
Yeah, that's where all the calculators go! (unlike human heaven, that was made up to prevent us all from going nuts!)
I've always found Bender to be Artificially Intelligent. A shiny Jesus who's not afraid to tell it like it is. See how he gives Fry some sage advice to get to the afterlife.
Icon: Because Bender actually wanted to be a Terminator.
The tenets of pretty much every religion came from a bunch of middle-aged men collecting all the stories about their respective god and collating those which best fitted the dialogue they wanted to present. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that an LLM-based AI is as good (and as bad) at doing the same thing.
Upvote and beer in loving memory of Graham Chapman.
But you are not quite right about their respective "god". Usually it is the stories told by and about their respective prophet. For example Judaism, Christianity and Islam all share the same god (just called different names in different languages). Many religions are even named after their prophet - Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Confucianism come to mind. And Buddhism doesn't have any gods anyway.
How long before the first inevitable sect claiming AIJesus as the living Messiah pops up? After all, as the crowd around Brian declared, the fact that he up-front denied it proves his modesty and authenticity beyond doubt.
lead me to wonder whether the original could have heard confession. From my school days' religious instruction classes I think Jesus was a Rabbi but I cannot quite see how he might have been ordained a christian priest.
Curiously this particular church is St Peter's, named after the Apostle from whom the Roman church derives the papal succession.
As far as I (an infidel) understand these matters, confession is only one part of the sacrement. They being (i) contrition, (ii) amendment or remediation, (iii) confession and (iv) penance.
Protestants presumably have similar processess but omit the need for an intermediary between their consciences and their God.
Counterintuitively AI Jesus might pose fewer doctrinal problems for protestants than for its catholic creators.
Seriously anyone that understands that fundamentally, religion is for the living and is an attempt to convince people to live better lives in greater accord with others, with their environment etc, will have serious concerns about introducing a mechanical non human component into what is essentially a human to human interaction.
Replacing one half of the interaction with an automaton must ultimately dehumanise the remaining half.
Not that I imagine Hell needs any further assistance in filling its pits. If Hades were landfill it would have been obliged to convert to recycling eons ago...
Had you been born a Druid, you would have made the same claim about the impersonality of books. They insisted on rote learning and word-of-mouth, and refused to write anything down.
The early Church did not allow images of God in its art. He did not appear until the Renaissance - Michaelangelo was not the first, but he was certainly the first to have Papal blessing. A similar story occurred with images of the Buddha (though of course Islam remains adamant about its own Prophet to this day).
The translation of the Bible from sacred Latin to profane local languages such as English earned another burst of theological condemnation and burning at the stake. Similarly, the Hebrew Old Testament and Arabic Qu'ran have their dedicated dogmatists.
Even within my living memory, portraying Jesus on film was deemed blasphemous, and the first to do so had to remain underground.
AIJesus is in good company.
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Some will (are?) treat it as a priest no matter what, and listen to its ramblings.. much like a regular service then!
Many would argue, and I will poke the bear (not the kids), that it has more intelligence than those who go to Church regularly and then think it does them good.
I'm now going to hide in a corner and see the results of stirring the Jesus Hornets.
"...than those who go to Church regularly and then think it does them good..."
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I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
Going down there, it ain't scary 'cause I've got the virgin Mary
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
I'm in the backseat sinning, Jesus up there grinning
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
Green, white, pink or yellow, I don't care 'cause he's my feller
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car
In the words of the late Mr Adams
Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe... The new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to 16 entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors
Mine’s the coat with a towel in the pocket
An article on religion with no mention of the FSM.
As for training the AI, even if they left out the Old Testament to avoid poisoning it with crazy, a constant diet of confessions of sins, guilt and all your religious hang ups will lead to a seriously twisted AI - probably best if it doesnt actually listen to what people tell it..
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Well the toaster can deal with the sacramental bread, and I presume an AI enomatic machine (https://enomatic.com/) can help with the communion wine. I'm not sure what this teledildonic machine is for but I guess we will find out soon enough...
Not all that new ... We were using the term Teledildonics at SAIL in (roughly) 1978. I am 99% certain it did not originate with us, but it is something that Uncle John[0] would have come up with ... It's a shame the gootards fucked up DejaNews, there were numerous USENET threads on the subject in the early 1980s (some even serious!).
That said, whois reports teledildonics.com was first registered in 1998, although I find that difficult to believe. I'm sure it was much earlier than that ... but come to think of it, wasn't it in 1998 that InterNIC finally lightened up a trifle and started allowing so-called "risqué" domain names?
[0] Prof. John McCarthy ... a Wiki near you probably has a brief, truncated look at the life of this complex and brilliant man. RIP, Boss.