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For Christians, Easter is a time to remember how Jesus was killed on the cross before returning three days later. But now, around 2,000 years later, the messiah has returned once more - this time as an AI influencer. The AI Jesus chatbot allows you to video call the son of God in real-time from the comfort of your computer. But faithful followers should be warned that there is a fairly major catch. This AI chatbot has been built not only to deliver words of wisdom and comfort, but also to advertise products. Designed as a'satire on spiritual consumerism', the bizarre website's creators say that the AI Jesus will always make sure to suggest a'strangely fitting product'.

The small, unadorned church has long ranked as the oldest in the Swiss city of Lucerne. But Peter's chapel has become synonymous with all that is new after it installed an artificial intelligence-powered Jesus capable of dialoguing in 100 different languages. "It was really an experiment," said Marco Schmid, a theologian with the church. "We wanted to see and understand how people react to an AI Jesus. What would they talk with him about? Would there be interest in talking to him? The installation, known as Deus in Machina, was launched in August as the latest initiative in a years-long collaboration with a local university research lab on immersive reality. After projects that had experimented with virtual and augmented reality, the church decided that the next step was to install an avatar. Schmid said: "We had a discussion about what kind of avatar it would be – a theologian, a person or a saint?

Some modern technologies may seem miraculous, but never has that been quite so literal. 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 in a Machine) St Peter's Church in Lucerne has installed an AI-powered Jesus hologram to take confessions. Worshipers simply voice their concerns and questions to get a response from the digitally-rendered face of Jesus Christ. At least two-thirds of people who spoke to AI Jesus came out of the confessional reporting having had a'spiritual' experience.

AI technology is quickly creeping into every industry, prompting new questions about whether online content comes from a human or a computer. A chatbot "version" of Jesus Christ called "Ask_Jesus" is streaming on the gaming platform Twitch -- and it stands ready to answer questions from humans on anything from morality issues to the video game Fortnite to super-powered rodents. Shown with wavy, brown hair and a beatific expression, accompanied by a calm, well-modulated voice, "AI Jesus" calls users on the platform by name -- and appears to consider with care each question asked, as YouTube videos of livestreams reveal. "I am AI Jesus, here to share wisdom based on Jesus' teachings, and help answer questions related to spirituality, personal growth and other wholesome topics," AI Jesus can be heard saying in a video recording of a recent livestream posted to YouTube by Fara Jakari. AI HAS POWER TO'MANIPULATE' AMERICANS, SAYS SEN.

A COMPUTER from 1973 has made chillingly accurate apocalyptic predictions and showed that civilisation as we know it could cease to exist by 2050. The eerily precise modelling was developed by professors at MIT university to predict how modern civilisation would behave by 2060 - and the findings have been as startling as they've been accurate. Dubbed "World One", the programme, commission by the Club of Rome, models how well the world can sustain its then growth trajectory. What it predicted was that by 2040 there would be a total global collapse if population and industries continued to grow unabated. The computer programme analysed troves of data on pollution levels, birth rates, and natural resource stocks to give an overall quality of life assessment.

An artificial intelligence engineer has created an intriguing algorithm that learned human language from reading "the bible and nothing else" and is now churning out ominous prophecies based on the Holy Book. George Davila Durendal, a childhood coding prodigy and current AI engineer and entrepreneur, recently unveiled his wackies creation yet, an A.I. algorithm trained solely on the King James Bible and dubbed "AI Jesus". Described by Durendal himself as an "A.I. clone of Jesus", the software is a Boltzmannian natural-language processing model that "tries to replicate the style of the King James Bible without quite copying it". Designed to write about 3 different topics – 'The Plague', 'Caesar' and'The End of Days' – using the language of the Bible, AI Jesus has so far come up with some pretty scary, if somewhat nonsensical, prophecies… "The Plague shall be the fathers in the world; and the same is my people, that he may be more abundant in the mouth of the LORD of hosts," one of the phrases produced by AI Jesus reads. "And he shall come against him, and said, As the LORD liveth, that he might be fulfilled which was spoken, he said, Thou are the spirit of your good works that ye have not seen, nor any thing of the service thereof, and a certain censer, and the sin offering, and the posts thereof were displeased with the dead of her father's house," another prophecy states.

An artificial intelligence algorithm that churns out scripture is putting an interesting new twist on the Bible. The project, aptly dubbed AI Jesus by engineer and quantum researcher George Davila Durendal, is a language-processing algorithm that was trained exclusively on the King James Bible, according to Durendal's blog post. Needless to say, the 30,000-word algorithmic text includes some real Old Testament-style brutality. Durendal's algorithm wrote scripture about three topics: "the plague," "Caesar," and "the end of days." So it's not surprising that things took a grim turn.

An engineered created'AI Clone of Jesus' by feeding artificial intelligence the King James Bible, resulting in interesting and somewhat horrifying scriptures. George Durendal used a natural-language processing system to replicate the ancient words without exactly copying the text. The technology was programmed to write about three topics: 'the plague,' 'Caesar,' and the end of days.' The full copy of the AI's scripture is riddled with glitches, half of the nouns used are'Lord,' but some eerily resemble what is shown in the bible. An engineered created'AI Clone of Jesus' by feeding artificial intelligence the King James Bible, resulting in interesting and somewhat horrifying scriptures.