About the matter of speaking to God, the Pew Research Center reports that 75% of Americans talk to God, and a little more than a third said God talks back. From 1995, Neale Donald Walsch began to write a series of books called Conversations with God? Struck a nerve.- Book 1 became a publishing sensation, staying on The New York Times Best Sellers list for 137 weeks.
- He purported to actually speak to God, and his readers believed him.
- Recorded three thousand pages of material in nine books.
So for my more modern Artificial Intelligence look at religion, where better then to search for AI spiritual chats by asking Google AI Overview:
Apps like Bible Chat, Chat with God AI, and Text With Jesus offer AI-powered chatbots for conversing with biblical figures or accessing scripture-based answers to spiritual questions. These apps provide a platform for users to find comfort, guidance, and inspiration, though they are presented as tools for reflection and learning rather than a replacement for personal faith or actual communication with God.
- Platforms like CrushOn offer AI-driven interactions, often with a focus on roleplaying.
- Integrates with the Bing search engine and OpenAI's GPT-4 technology to provide up-to-date information and answers across various domains.
- A Google integration that offers AI capabilities for a wide range of professional and personal uses.
- A family of large language models known for strong reasoning and coding capabilities, offering different versions for various tasks.
Or, here is but one Top Ten AI Bible chat apps for 2025.
- Faith Guide: Bible Chat leads the AI Bible Chat app category with its comprehensive scripture study features, theologically accurate responses, and personalized spiritual guidance. Bible Chat (CrossTalk) offers massive reach with 25 million users, while bible.aiexcels in conversational depth. For the most complete AI-powered Bible study experience: choose Faith Guide: Bible Chat.
Thus, in 2025, instead of the traditional methods, many millions today are confessing secrets to AI chatbots.
- Bible Chat gets over 30 million visits/day.
- Bible App is worldwide installed in a billion (well, not exactly there yet, but on that link, there is a counter that is nearing that number) unique devices. Offered are 3500 Bible versions in 65 languages...FOR FREE AND WITHOUT ADVERTISING.
- ChatwithGod, begins with, how can I help?
- Click on your religion.
- Indicate what you need today.
- Pick a topic, like Jesus, etc.
- Even ask for religious joke if you wish.
- You then send out a message to the source.
- You would think that real people are on the other end....but, no, you will be connected to an artificial intelligence link.
- Free? Yes, with limitations. For $8/month, you can have unlimited access, along with daily verses and prayer requests.
- This is typical of services which allow you to speak to God or Jesus.
There is no chatbot designed to speak with the actual God, but several AI-powered platforms and apps offer "conversations" with religious figures or provide spiritual guidance based on specific faith texts, such as Text With Jesus for Christianity, Gita GPT for Hinduism, and various apps like Bible Chat and Hallow that offer spiritual content and AI-powered assistance to users. These chatbots work by processing vast amounts of religious text to provide human-like responses to user prompts, aiming to offer spiritual insights and facilitate learning and reflection rather than replacing personal faith or prayer.
Concept of the chatbot concept. Remember the 2008 film, Wall-E? Rotten Tomatoes 95/90...great film. He falls in love with Eve, who looks like a chatbot.
- The history of a software application or web interface designed to have textual or spoken conversations goes back, perhaps, to Alan Turing in 1950.
He created the Turing test for intelligence.- This was a computer program impersonating a human in real time to test a real human.
Then came Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA in 1966.- This was more a debunking exercise.
- Involved the recognition of clue words or phrases from the human input to present a programmed output to move forward the conversation, providing an illusion of a real conversation.
- Followed by Kenneth Colby's PARRY in 1972.
- Beginning in 1978, Janet Kolodner led the CYRUS project, a chatbot simulating Cyrus Vance, then the Secretary of State. When he resigned in 1980, another chatbot was constructed of his successor, Edmund Muskie.
Racter, an AI program from Mindscape became available in 1984 to generate English language prose for IBM personal computers, then for Apple II, Mac and Amiga. Was used to publish a book, The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed.
- A.L.I.C.E. was released in 1995 to function as a conversational agent and Jabberwacky in 1997 used real-time user interactions.
- There were others into the next millennium, and today, chatbots are regularly used for customer service, healthcare, politics and in toys, as for example, Barbie.
- A growing menace for malicious use.
- Beginning to replace people in knowledge-based jobs.
- Generative AI uses a high amount of power and cooling water. Today, with still the prominence of fossil-fuel electricity, increases global warming. For example a question to ChaGPT consumes around 10 times more energy than a Google search.
- A key player is ChatGPT, a generative AI chatbot developed by OpenAI in 2022.
- The current GPT-5 generates text, speech and images in response to user prompts.
- A freemium model service is among the 5 most-visited websites globally.
- In just 5 days, ChatGPT surpassed 1 million users.
- ChatGPT.com gets approximately 4.61 billion visits per month
- Users send 2.5 billion prompts each day
- Around 62% of ChatGPT's social media traffic comes via YouTube.
- Around 15% of ChatGPT's users are American.
- More than 45% of ChatGPT users are under the age of 25.
- OpenAI hopes to reach 1 billion users by the end of 2025.
- About two-thirds are male users.
- 45% are under the age of 25.
- Is the most popular AI tool for personal and workplace usage, followed by Google AI Mode.
- At home, if you use AI tools, 83% use ChatGPT. I'm one of the 41% that link to Google AI overview. Both are free.
- There are 8.14 billion people in the world today. ChatGPT gets more than 5.2 visits/month, and each user spends an average of 12 minutes 9 seconds on the site.
- However, the Google AI Overview I use gets nearly 100 billion visits/month, with an average duration of 12 mins 52 secs
- You Tube is at 42.8 billion visits/month, Facebook 9.2 billion and Instagram 5.3 billion.
There are three ocean storms. Tropical Storm Narda has formed off the coast of Mexico, will become a hurricane, attain Category 2 strength, head in the general direction of Hawaii, then...?
The potentially dangerous one is Super Typhoon Ragasa, now at 175 MPH. Thankfully, the path is west between the Philippines and Taiwan. However, the eye will still be at Category 3 when on September 4 landfall is predicted over China between Zhanjiang and Leizhou.
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