{"id":116365,"date":"2020-11-26T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/ai-trained-on-the-bible-spits-out-bleak-religious-prophecies"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T01:22:30","slug":"ai-trained-on-the-bible-spits-out-bleak-religious-prophecies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/ai-trained-on-the-bible-spits-out-bleak-religious-prophecies","title":{"rendered":"AI trained on the bible spits out bleak religious prophecies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-trained-on-the-bible-spits-out-bleak-religious-prophecies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Code Unto Caesar<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Durendal\u2019s algorithm wrote scripture about three topics: \u201cthe plague,\u201d \u201cCaesar,\u201d and \u201cthe end of days.\u201d So it\u2019s not surprising that things took a grim turn. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GeorgeDavila\/AI_Jesus\">The full text<\/a> is full of glitches characteristic of AI-written texts, like excerpts where over half of the nouns are \u201cLord.\u201d But some passages are <em>more<\/em> coherent and read like bizarre doomsday prophecies.<\/p>\n<p>For example, from the plague section: \u201cO LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; When they saw the angel of the Lord above all the brethren which were in the wilderness, and the soldiers of the prophets shall be ashamed of men.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code Unto Caesar Durendal\u2019s algorithm wrote scripture about three topics: \u201cthe plague,\u201d \u201cCaesar,\u201d and \u201cthe end of days.\u201d So it\u2019s not surprising that things took a grim turn. The full text is full of glitches characteristic of AI-written texts, like excerpts where over half of the nouns are \u201cLord.\u201d But some passages are more coherent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}