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I have been in IT for 20 years, have both a BS and MS in Information Technology, and I will never understand why EVERYONE has such a hard-on for AI; especially given its track record of “hallucinations”.
Aren’t a lot of religions based on hallucinations that specific people have had?
Goddamnit. Take my effing upvote.
You have been in IT for 20 years and don’t understand this? Has your career not made it abundantly clear that the average person is completely computer illiterate and has no idea what AI even is? How many people have you had to assist in 20 years who insist that they have tried every possible solution, only to find out that something isn’t even plugged in or turned on?
I made a mistake in my comment; I failed to clarify that I was referring to the IT industry and not your every day layman. For example, I work under two levels below our CIO/Vice Chancellor (i.e. second in command from the Chancellor/President) of a university, and despite all of the evidence available to them, they still wish to shove AI down our throats.
I will also be interviewing with an IT company next week who prides themselves on “everyone at every level being engineers” who espouse AI coding as the next level for their internal frameworks.
These are the people who are supposed to know better.
I don’t doubt that you’re good with technology but, I’ve met MANY people in the information technology field, even with their MS, who were fucking idiots and barely knew shit about technology outside what they needed to know for their specific job.
its the potential of AI that people have a hard on for. look how far AI has come in a mere 5 years. now imagine 5 more, or even 20 more.
I cautiously review new tech to develop practical uses for it. I constantly live in doubt of a tech being a replacement for all that came before. So far it never has.
But helping me fix python code, creating a conversation about IT policy and draft policy creation, cleaning up mass emails before I hit send are all fantastic daily uses for AI in my job
Maybe AI will dominate us simply because we are dumb enough to give it all the tasks…
It’s got what babies crave.
“It’s what plants crave.”
Better move him to a new Parish before they figure what type of AI pornography he’s into.
“We did train him on real priests personality, but he’s definitely hallucinating this part!”
I mean, water has to be blessed by a priest first before it becomes holy. So, what if the only thing available is a bottle of Gatorade but you have a priest? Couldn’t he bless the Gatorade so that the person could be baptized?
Semen is like 85% water
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Yes, but, every sperm is sacred, so God might get irate.
Thank God we are protestant!
This is an interesting question. You can use saliva to baptize in the event of an emergency (lick your thumb and make the sign of the cross on the forehead, in the name of Father, Son, Holy Spirit—but that would likely need a secondary “proper” baptism if the emergency passes, this one counting as “conditional”). Which I guess would supersede ever needing Gatorade since you always have saliva.
If you mix holy water with Gatorade powder does it become holy Gatorade?
Oooh. If you then dehydrate that solution do you have Holy (gatorade) powder?
That image makes me think he’s going to get mad at me for pursuing a culture victory.
“Is this about that little spying incident?”
I’m getting molesty vibes. I guarantee this will be the first AI who commits statutory rape
I mean, I’m not a theologist or anything, but based on other precedents, if someone was dying and wanted to be baptized at the last second, and no source of water could be arranged on time, the Gatorade baptism would probably be accepted by the Catholic church.
Transubstantiation of Gatorade into Holy Water doesn’t even sound that outrageous when priests claim to transubstantiate wine to blood on a daily basis.
Bartender: “Sorry, dude, you’ve had quite a few drinks, I have to cut you off, only water for you from now on.”
Jesus: "Dammit… "
This seems to mean that priests can theoretically make any liquid holy, thereby making holy Gatorade.
I just checked and it seems that unfortunately not. At least catholic Priests are only allowed to bless “true water”, which is usually understood to mean that nothing was purposely added to it (with the exception of certain salts for rituals like exorcism).
They’ve got holy water and holy wine. Why not holy beer.
“This is my piss, drink of it and be holy”
Uh, skeet skeet “enjoy salvation”
I legit thought it was going to say it found some way to molest a kid
That usually results in promotion
Somehow, I imagine it similar to this
As an actual, honest-to-God (Episcopal) priest myself, the idea of an “AI priest” is very troubling.
The church will make an AI priest before making a woman a “priest”
Why? The high bar is AI doctors and their jobs are already under threat. AI Priests are much simpler and less risky to implement.
I’m also troubled by all the others. What gets me in this case, aside from the fact that it’s more “personal,” is that there’s a sacramental nature to the priesthood that feels almost mocked by the notion of a gimmick like this. Also, as others have pointed out, this is a continued slap in the face to women who’ve long struggled for ordination in the Roman Catholic Church only to see that their church would rather call an advanced algorithm a “priest” before it would do so for them.
I see. An AI priest is not facing any personal sacrifice for their position.
I would also worry about either the validity or confidentially of it’s training set. AI confessions sound like a legal minefield.
If the priest is just trained on the bible then there will be some very strange advice delivered.
None of this will stop people trying to create them.
That isn’t why it was demoted. It was demoted because it kept insisting it was a real priest and could do real priest things like hear confessions, etc. My wife was quite holier than though about it.
Tell an LLM it’s a priest then act shocked when it does priest things. Next level. Truly incredible.
i wonder if no one thought to add “you are acting as a priest, but you are not an actual priest and should under no circumstances claim the ability to, or try to perform, actions that only an ordained priest may do.”
It being defrocked implies that it was frocked to begin with, which is a bit surprising.
You’d have thought that they’d get angry at it for impersonating a priest and giving false advice otherwise, since it’s not trained in the papacy like the others.
That was the thrust of the problem, yes. It was set up by Catholic Answers, not the actual Church, so it’s not like they were able to frock it even if they wanted to. But it claimed to be an actual priest, with all the rights and responsibilities thereof. Thus the “defrocking”.
So they’re saying that God doesn’t have the power to make the thurstquenchanator holy?
For those who don’t know, “AI-powered priest” in this case means a 3d model run by AI, not even a real person. The pronoun here is “it” not “he”.
I think Father Justin can decide his pronouns on his own, don’t you?
Strictly speaking no LOL - AI doesn’t “decide” anything.
I mean, it’s not like trans people choose to be trans.
I cast Holy Brondo!
It’s what un-baptized babies crave
I’m sure he qualified that this would only be the case in a desperate situation where only Gatorade was available.
wow they weren’t kidding about civ7
