Subject: Re: Reverend AI at your service
The comments to this article are manna for realists.
"Divine hallucinations - Hallelujah!"
"Pastor: Is there a god? AI: there is now!"
“Electric monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe... The new improved Monk Plus models were twice as powerful, had an entirely new multi-tasking Negative Capability feature that allowed them to hold up to 16 entirely different and contradictory ideas in memory simultaneously without generating any irritating system errors.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
...and the observation that AI preaching will certainly be competition for the majors..... allowing an entity to create an electronic church for each religion in all languages that solicits donations in all currencies and crypto. The ultimate grift.