In the confessional of a Swiss Catholic church, where the priest normally sits, the face of Christ appears. “AI Jesus” speaks in a German monotone (unless you set him to one of his 100 other languages), opens with a data privacy warning and then answers your religious questions. Powered by an OpenAI chatbot, the experiment ran last year in Lucerne’s St-Pierre Chapel. This Christmas, many Christians will use some form of AI to talk to Jesus. Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Jews have chatbots of their own. Your preferred deity already seems more lifelike in AI than in any painted image and will become more so as AI and virtual reality advance.
在瑞士一座天主教會的懺悔室里，原本該由神父就座的位置上出現了基督的面容。“AI耶穌”以單調的德語發聲（除非你將其設為其他一百種語言之一），先給出數據隱私提示，然后回答你的宗教問題。這個由OpenAI聊天機器人驅動的實驗，去年在盧塞恩的圣皮埃爾小教堂運行。今年圣誕節，許多基督徒將以某種形式借助AI與耶穌對話。印度教徒、佛教徒、穆斯林和猶太人也有各自的聊天機器人。隨著AI和虛擬現實的發展，你所偏好的神祇在AI中的呈現已比任何繪畫形象更為栩栩如生，并將愈發如此。