A.I. Hearing Confessions?

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From the London Mail [caution, lewd tabloid]:

Visitors to St Peter's Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland can now talk to an AI Jesus avatar built to take confessions for the church

Some modern technologies may seem miraculous, but never has that been quite so literal.

Thanks to technological advances, worshipers at a church in Switzerland can now speak directly to Jesus—or at least an AI version of him. As part of an art project called ‘Deus in Machina’ (God in a Machine) St. Peter’s Church in Lucerne has installed an AI-powered Jesus hologram to take confessions. Worshipers simply voice their concerns and questions to get a response from the digitally-rendered face of Jesus Christ.

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