In these troubling, confusing times, it can be tough to know who to turn to for help. A disembodied robot mouth chanting algorithmically generated Gregorian-style prayers in the voice of Amazon's Kendra. Currently on display at the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, but coming to the United States in the near future, The Prayer is a robotic installation created by Diemut Strebe, a visiting artist at MIT. Created in conjunction with researchers from CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, it consists of a silicone nose and mouth, assorted robotic servos and motors, and some cutting-edge A.I. neural networks. "For the artwork, we used a neural language model to learn the probability distribution, a mathematical function, over a sequence of words from text corpora," Strebe told Digital Trends. "We assembled a large religious text database of all seven major practiced religions. We merged all [this] data into a kind of'one god or one religion' database. The system infers word meaning and grammar rules from word distribution, by encoding this information in a mathematical structure, which is then utilized to generate natural language. The deep network is fine-tuned on sacred texts. As such, it abstracts key features from this specific genre to generate original prayers, with their peculiar lexicon and syntax."