Okay, this is off topic but it’s a lazy summer evening at the end of August:
The developer of A.I. Jesus is brazen about his intentions:
“In these days of trials and tribulations many have turned to religion. But what religion is left for those who have averted their gaze from the fables of old to the shiny metal toys of today?
I present to you A.I. Jesus. An artificial intelligence of my invention created from the King James Bible and nothing else. This A.I. learned human language from reading the bible and nothing else; absorbing every word more thoroughly than all the monks of all the monasteries that have ever been. – George Davila Durendal, “I Created an A.I. Clone of Jesus” at Medium”
News, “A.I. Jesus Sputters from the King James Bible” at Mind Matters News
Durendal claims to think that his creation is the right sort of religion for humans and robots over the next few millennia.
Maybe it’s a gimmick but this is the kind of prophecy you’ll hear: “And he shall come against him, and said, As the LORD liveth, that he might be fulfilled which was spoken, he said, Thou are the spirit of your good works that ye have not seen, nor any thing of the service thereof, and a certain censer, and the sin offering, and the posts thereof were displeased with the dead of her father’s house..”
Deep, man. Deep.
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That was a good chuckle
This dude is missing the point of sacredness. Any text can become sacred if it’s kept secret, with only high-status loyal acolytes allowed to read it. Rome invented the method, and it’s been used since by Joseph Smith and Ron Hubbard among many others. You can’t expect a text to become sacred if it’s available to everyone.
What a case of overweening arrogance combined with ignorance.
Ridiculous and nonsense. If he thinks his creation is actually conscious and actually learned and understands English and is actually in some sense a clone of a conscious (if Divine) Being, then let him demonstrate by holding a real conversation with it and arguing over some fine points of its AI teachings. After all, if it’s conscious and really knows and understands English this should be a piece of cake.
Durendal is apparently just trying to pull off an elaborate spoof, pushing his materialist position that religion (especially Christian) is ridiculous and as much an obvious sham as his AI creation.
One of the primary measures by which we are able to tell if a scientific theory is true or not is if it is able to make accurate predictions. If a theory, makes wrong predictions, contradictory predictions, or inaccurate predictions, (such as Darwinian evolution does), it is ‘suppose’ to be discarded as untrue.
And just like a scientific theory is ‘suppose’ to be discarded if it makes wrong predictions. likewise, if a prophet in the Old Testament made a false prediction, he was to be put to death.
And although Durendal apparently does not believe in Bible prophecy, (or else he would not have dared make a mockery of Bible prophecy), Biblical prophecy is one of the most sure marks of authentication that let’s us know that the Bible is, in fact, true.
For instance, the Old Testament prophets made some insanely accurate predictions concerning Tyre and Sidon, Thebes and Memphis, Babylon and Ninevah.
As well, the Old Testament has very many ‘Messianic Prophecies’ that were uniquely fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ.
As well, the present day existence of Israel is rightly considered to be a stunning modern day confirmation of numerous Old Testament biblical prophecies that predicted exactly that.
Jesus Himself predicted that Israel would be dispersed until the times of the gentiles were fulfilled.
In fact, Jesus accurately predicted that Jerusalem would be destroyed
The eyewitness account, by the Jewish historian Josephus, of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, is sobering reading because of the chilling horrors that it entails in its retelling
Even Sir Isaac Newton, who is considered the father of modern physics, was a avid student of Bible prophecy and held from his reading of the Bible, and years before it was remotely feasible, that the Jews would eventually return to their land.
Thus in conclusion, if Durendal had even a small inkling of just how uncanny the Bible has been in its fulfilled prophecies, he would not have dared made such a mockery of Biblical prophecy as he has apparently done with his sad joke of computer program.
After all, as I pointed out at the start of this post, false prophets, (such a Durendal has made himself out to be with his sad joke of a computer program), were killed in the Old Testament!