Schmid was quick to point out that the “AI Jesus” – billed as a “Jesus-like” persona – was an artistic experiment to get ...

An art installation demonstrating the potential for AI to have a role in religion wasn't set up to take confession.

In Switzerland, where AI Jesus was developed, about 33 per cent of people identify as Catholic and only 17 per cent of them ...

Tucked inside a confessional at Peter's Chapel, the "Jesus" avatar collected questions from visitors on morality, faith, and ...

An avatar of “Jesus" on a computer screen took questions from visitors on faith, morality, and modern-day woes, and offered ...

St. Peter’s Chapel, a landmark church in Lucerne, Switzerland, is using a holographic Jesus in its confessional through means ...

A church in Switzerland's Lucerne has introduced an ... with the animated face moving in sync with its speech. AI Jesus can engage in conversations in over 100 languages, allowing it to assist ...

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A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram of Jesus to take confessions from Catholic worshippers, as seen in a wild viral video. “I was surprised, it was so easy, and though it’s a ...

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 ...