Can a chatbot preach a good sermon? Hundreds attend church service generated by ChatGPT to find out

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“Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year's convention of Protestants in Germany,' the avatar said with an expressionless face and monotonous voice.

FUERTH, Germany — 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.

“I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98% comes from the machine,” the 29-year-old scholar told The Associated Press. “I told the artificial intelligence ‘We are at the church congress, you are a preacher … what would a church service look like?’” Simmerlein said. He also asked for psalms to be included, as well as prayers and a blessing at the end.“You end up with a pretty solid church service,” Simmerlein said, sounding almost surprised by the success of his experiment.

Some people enthusiastically videotaped the event with their cell phones, while others looked on more critically and refused to speak along loudly during The Lord's Prayer. What the young pastor missed, however, was any kind of emotion or spirituality, which he says is essential when he writes his own sermons.

 

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