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Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 8:54 pm
I wasn't sure where to put this one, but since the robot is the big selling point, I decided to put it in Technology.
Quote:Five hundred years after revolutionary printing presses spread news of Martin Luther’s radical call for church reform across Europe, technology is again challenging religious tradition in the small German town of Wittenberg.
A robot priest that delivers blessings in five languages and beams light from its hands has been unveiled as part of an exhibition to mark the anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a Europe-wide religious, political and cultural upheaval sparked when Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in the town.
Half a millennium later, the robot, called BlessU-2, is intended to trigger debate about the future of the church and the potential of artificial intelligence.
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And, just for the records, the church in question is, in fact, Protestant, so I doubt they're going to program it to molest children.
Any thoughts?
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 8:57 pm
Quote:“We wanted people to consider if it is possible to be blessed by a machine, or if a human being is needed,” Stephan Krebs of the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau, which is behind the initiative, told the Guardian.
I imagine the church and theists stating that it is impossible, considering that the robot does not have a soul with which it can use to properly be in contact with god.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 9:24 pm
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(May 30, 2017 at 8:54 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I wasn't sure where to put this one, but since the robot is the big selling point, I decided to put it in Technology.
Quote:Five hundred years after revolutionary printing presses spread news of Martin Luther’s radical call for church reform across Europe, technology is again challenging religious tradition in the small German town of Wittenberg.
A robot priest that delivers blessings in five languages and beams light from its hands has been unveiled as part of an exhibition to mark the anniversary of the start of the Reformation, a Europe-wide religious, political and cultural upheaval sparked when Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in the town.
Half a millennium later, the robot, called BlessU-2, is intended to trigger debate about the future of the church and the potential of artificial intelligence.
Full article is here:
And, just for the records, the church in question is, in fact, Protestant, so I doubt they're going to program it to molest children.
Any thoughts? The Protestants will program the Choir Director to molest children instead.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 9:39 pm
The catholicks will invent a robotic altar boy with a reinforced asshole.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Shades of Douglas Adams' Electric Monk.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 9:54 pm
A robot priest?
Quick, hide your toasters and vacuuming bots!!
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 9:59 pm
Hide your wallets.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 10:19 pm
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What's the difference between the robot and a human priest?
One's incapable of caring and has no heart.
The other is some type of mechanical thing.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 10:31 pm
(May 30, 2017 at 9:52 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Shades of Douglas Adams' Electric Monk.
Ironically, that one does exist now. Granted, it's a Buddhist monk, and there's even less A.I. than BlessU2, but still, it's an electronic monk.
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RE: Robot Priest Unveiled in Wittenberg
May 30, 2017 at 10:59 pm
(May 30, 2017 at 8:57 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Quote:“We wanted people to consider if it is possible to be blessed by a machine, or if a human being is needed,” Stephan Krebs of the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau, which is behind the initiative, told the Guardian.
I imagine the church and theists stating that it is impossible, considering that the robot does not have a soul with which it can use to properly be in contact with god.
Nor is it a son of Adam. God would be unaware of any intercessory applications to which it might pretend.
Satan, on the other hand . . .
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