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

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

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

An art installation in Lucerne used an AI-driven Jesus avatar to converse with visitors on faith and morality. The project ...

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 ...

Dealing with limited space the need for people to have private conversations with the avatar, the church switched its priest ...

The breakdown: Despite being placed in the confessional booth, the parish notes on its website that the AI installation is ...

A church in the Swiss city of Lucerne has set up a confessional booth that allows churchgoers to converse with an "AI Jesus" ...

The oldest Catholic church in one Swiss city is offering parishioners a chance to receive a blessing from a virtual ...

What if we told you that the latest application of artificial intelligence is in spirituality and religion?  The Saint Peter's Chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, has done exactly that, installing a ...

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