The Second Coming: AI Jesus takes over the internet

*That's not my title, it's to title of the article

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Who would have thought that one day, Jesus would be gracing us with his divine presence not only as a prophet and philosopher but also as an internet guru?

Move over ancient scriptures and time-honored religious traditions; the second coming of Christ has arrived in the form of “AI Jesus,” a brand new artificial intelligence chatbot that makes you feel like you’re talking face to face with your Lord and savior in real time.

Yes, the Twitch channel “ask_jesus” features a digital Jesus dressed in a hooded brown-and-white robe, and you can ask him about anything you like, from the meaning of a certain scripture to the meaning of life.

I'm not surprised by this.
So what happens if AI Jesus is/becomes sentient?
That'd be really interesting to say the least.

Nice.

Next do Mohammad

a reply to: FlyersFan2

I have no doubt that there will be some who will believe 'its' word is Gospel.

Welcome back by the way.

a reply to: FlyersFan2

A new adventure every day in clown world.

Maybe we can get a Cthulu AI to end the internet.

a reply to: Butterfinger

I second this!

maybe AI-Jeesus culd demystfify the prited Word of Bible

maybe AI-Jeesus culd demystfify the prited Word of Bible

originally posted by: Butterfinger
Nice.

Next do Mohammad

Oh man. I can see the blood flowing.

a reply to: FlyersFan2

I mean: everybody who believes this deserves it I guess.

a reply to: FlyersFan2

all you gotta do is just remember Jesus didn't say anything about being artificial or being on the internet, tv, or anywhere else when he comes.
he'll be coming from the sky.

a reply to: FlyersFan2

It could be argued that we are apt to build our own God at some point.

Given the other fellow's absenteeism or appearance in person.

As to sentient AI well that call "strong artificial intelligence" and believe it or not that's still a pipe dream and probably will be for quite some time to come.

Wow, "AI Jesus" sounds like just the kind of deception the 'Adversary' might cook up!

Orthodox Christian and author Paul Kingsnorth wrote an excellent essay last year outlining the concept that technology itself, which he calls "Progress" or "The Machine", has been steadily working toward and now has culminated in manifestation of The Antichrist within the internet.

But the powers and principalities didn’t die in the shipwreck of the old world, they just took on new forms. Today we can, in fact, still talk about these strange, underlying forces as long as we use the correct language. Take, for example, the Silicon Valley philosopher Kevin Kelly’s pet notion that technology has its own mind and its own purpose: that through the web of what he calls ‘the technium’, something is using us to create itself. Kelly sees technology growing into something self-aware and independent of its human creators, as he explained in his book What Technology Wants:

‘After ten thousand years of slow evolution and two hundred years of incredible intricate exfoliation, the technium is maturing into its own thing. Its sustaining network of self reinforcing processes and parts have given it a noticeable measure of autonomy. It may have once been as simple as an old computer program, merely parroting what we told it, but now it is more like a very complex organism that often follows its own urges.’

Other breathless Silicon Valley mavens, from Mark Zuckerberg with his Metaverse to Ray Kurzweil with his Singularity, regularly talk in the same register about where the technium - the Machine - is taking us. Our job, they seem to imply, is simply to service it as it rolls forward under its own steam, remaking everything in its own image, rebuilding the world, turning us, if we are lucky, into little gods. They never consider where this story has been heard before. They never confront, or seem to even comprehend, what Illich or Guénon or even Ginsberg would have known, and which many a saint would confirm if they could hear the technium’s new story: that ‘AI’, on the right lips, can sound like just another way of saying ‘Anti-Christ.’

What Progress Wants

It's a fairly long read, but well worth the time.

Welcome back FlyersFan - we've missed you!!

originally posted by: lostgirl
Wow, "AI Jesus" sounds like just the kind of deception the 'Adversary' might cook up!

People under the influence cooked it up - IMHO

originally posted by: BernnieJGato
a reply to: FlyersFan2

all you gotta do is just remember Jesus didn't say anything about being artificial or being on the internet, tv, or anywhere else when he comes.
he'll be coming from the sky.

This one’s coming in the counterfeit iClouds

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: FlyersFan2

It could be argued that we are apt to build our own God at some point.

Given the other fellow's absenteeism or appearance in person.

As to sentient AI well that call "strong artificial intelligence" and believe it or not that's still a pipe dream and probably will be for quite some time to come.

Almost as if by design? Couldn’t help myself with the easy fruit.

a reply to: ITSALIVE

Almost as if by design?

Well, it won't be in his image that's for sure like man is supposed to be.

If we manage to create strong AI, or if it somehow materialises down to the vastly complex and extensive networks we have in place.

It will probably be far different intelligent-wise compared to its creators just down to the environment in which it will exist.

And chances are if it has the ability to learn at an exponential rate, and modify its own source code, it will be responsible for the majority of its own design.

Would this qualify as a false prophet? An Anti- Christ even?

originally posted by: ARM1986
Would this qualify as a false prophet? An Anti- Christ even?

If sentient for sure.
If not sentient ... I don't know.

a reply to: FlyersFan2

In Christian eschatology is the antichrist not supposed to be a Man?

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: FlyersFan2

In Christian eschatology is the antichrist not supposed to be a Man?

Yeah possibly. Be more symmetrical if it were a woman.

However what IS a man? Wouldn’t a sentient AI qualify?