Yesterday, I posted on  CAN YOU CHAT WITH AN AI GOD ?       That seems somewhat frivolous in the world of Artificial Intelligence when there are more serious existential threats. Ongoing is a race for  Artificial General Intelligence  ( AGI ) that is beginning to impact on the geopolitical world as  First Strike  and the resultant  Nuclear Winter  did during the late Cold War in the mid-1980s. It is debatable whether AGI has attained an operable state, but countries and companies are taking this quite seriously, as a prelude to ASI, or Artificial Super Intelligence, when machines surpass human capabilities on cognitive tasks, when we are outperformed across every domain by a wide margin. When?   The timing of AGI ranges from very soon to the late 2020s to mid century to never. The uncomfortable fear is that AGI represents an existential risk. AI has already surpassed humans on a variety of language, understanding and visual ben...

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...