From ChatGPT to a virtual girlfriend, a range of weird and wonderful chatbots have emerged in recent months amid the proliferation of artifical intelligence (AI). But the latest AI-powered app is arguably the most bizarre yet. The app, called Text With Jesus, is designed for'devoted Christians seeking a deeper connection with the Bible's most iconic figures', according to its developers. As the name suggests, users can'text' with Jesus, as well as a number of other figures including Mary, Joseph, Peter and Matthew. And while the basic app is free, users can opt to pay $2.99/month (£2.35/month) to speak to Satan. Text With Jesus is designed for'devoted Christians seeking a deeper connection with the Bible's most iconic figures', according to its developers Text With Jesus was trained on all publicly available versions of the Bible, including the King James Version, the New International Version and the New American Standard Bible, according to its developers.

This past November, soon after OpenAI released ChatGPT, a software developer named Thomas Ptacek asked it to provide instructions for removing a peanut-butter sandwich from a VCR, written in the style of the King James Bible. ChatGPT rose to the occasion, generating six pitch-perfect paragraphs: "And he cried out to the Lord, saying, 'Oh Lord, how can I remove this sandwich from my VCR, for it is stuck fast and will not budge?' " Ptacek posted a screenshot of the exchange on Twitter. "I simply cannot be cynical about a technology that can accomplish this," he concluded. The nearly eighty thousand Twitter users who liked his interaction seemed to agree. A few days later, OpenAI announced that more than a million people had signed up to experiment with ChatGPT.

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 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.

Scientists are now using the Bible to help algorithms perfect their language skills. An AI has been trained on various versions of the sacred text so it can convert written works into different styles for different audiences. Each version of the Bible contains more than 31,000 verses that the researchers used to produce over 1.5 million unique pairings of source and target verses. The Bible is helping algorithms perfect their translation skills. Internet tools that translate text between languages like English and Spanish are widely available.