'Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...'
Over 300 parishioners gathered in Feurth, Germany last week to attend a church service written — and delivered — by AI, the"I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98 percent comes from the machine," Jonas Simmerlein, a 29-year-old theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna and the human behind the AI sermon, told thePer the report, Simmerlein used OpenAI's ChatGPT to write the service's script, which was...
First off, a religious service where the emotionless visage of an AI "preacher" tells a churchgoing crowd to release their fear of death and never quit loving Jesus doesn'tsound dystopian. But considering that there was reportedly a queue around the corner starting an hour before the event, maybe add preacher to the list of roles that might go the way of AI automation.
"There was no heart and no soul," Heiderose Schmidt, a 54-year-old IT worker, told the AP. "The avatars showed no emotions at all, had no body language, and were talking so fast and monotonously that it was very hard for me to concentrate on what they said."that he "had actually imagined it to be worse," but similarly noted that the AI-powered avatars failed to show any emotion or spirituality.
But while the service was well-attended and the sermon, in the words of Simmerlein, was "pretty solid" as far as the words and structure, preachers aren't likely to be replaced just yet. "The pastor is in the congregation, she lives with them, she buries the people, she knows them from the beginning," Simmerlein told the
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