Let there be AI: ChatGPT is leading church services now – Dazed

⬅️ Left Arrow*️⃣ Asterisk⭐ StarOption Sliders✉️ MailExitAsk_jesus, an AI Twitch streamer who doles out spiritual advice (and pasta recipes)Via Twitch/Ask_jesusThe chatbot delivered an experimental service in Germany, while an AI Jesus draws in hundreds of viewers on Twitch – is this a sign of things to come? It’s increasingly clear that there aren’t many industries that will remain untouched by AI in years to come, but you might think that the church is a rare exception. Apparently, you’d be wrong. On Friday morning (June 9), more than 300 people showed up for a sermon delivered by a chatbot at a church in Germany, giving new meaning to the words deus ex machina. Powered by ChatGPT – the OpenAI chatbot at the forefront of any conversation about artificial intelligence – the AI appeared as a bearded man on a huge screen above the congregation at St Paul’s church in Fürth, alongside a few other male and female personae. The experimental Lutheran service it delivered lasted 40 minutes, and included a sermon, music, and prayers. Jonas Simmerlein, a 29-year-old theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna, conceived the service (though ChatGPT did “98 per cent” of the work). “I told the
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