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You can ask ChatGPT to construct its own toneless version of the hymn Amazing Grace that replaces any mention of God and religion with computer processes and code (“Amazing grace! How great the code, that processed data and bestowed, intelligence upon a machine”). Now, researchers in Germany took that one step further and held an entire church service generated by an unthinking, unfeeling, and arguablysacrilegious AI chatbot.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?AP first reported over the weekend about a special…

The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul's church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI. “Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial…

The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul's church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by an avatar of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI. "Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial…