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.
在瑞士一座天主教会的忏悔室里，原本该由神父就座的位置上出现了基督的面容。“AI耶稣”以单调的德语发声（除非你将其设为其他一百种语言之一），先给出数据隐私提示，然后回答你的宗教问题。这个由OpenAI聊天机器人驱动的实验，去年在卢塞恩的圣皮埃尔小教堂运行。今年圣诞节，许多基督徒将以某种形式借助AI与耶稣对话。印度教徒、佛教徒、穆斯林和犹太人也有各自的聊天机器人。随着AI和虚拟现实的发展，你所偏好的神祇在AI中的呈现已比任何绘画形象更为栩栩如生，并将愈发如此。