Techno-Spiritualism & Chatbots

...or one who inquires of the dead,...For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD..... 

Deuteronomy 18:11,12

Q: Does that include Chatbots? 
"While professing to bring the living into communication with the dead, the prince of evil exercises his bewitching influence upon their minds." E.G.W.


"....at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, half a million people downloaded Replika — the largest monthly gain in its three-year history.
Eugenia designed a chatbot called Replika. A cross between a diary and a personal assistant, Replika asks users a series of questions, eventually learning to mimic their personalities. The goal is to get

closer to creating a digital avatar that would be able to reproduce us and replace us once we’re dead, but also one that is able to create “friendships” with humans.
Eugenia, who was herself an entrepreneur and software developer,
had been working on a messenger app called Luka that used AI to emulate human dialogue. Inspired by an episode of the show “Black Mirror” in which a young woman, Martha, shattered by the loss of her boyfriend Ash, installs an app that allows her to keep communicating with him, Eugenia decided to modify Luka.....
In the days following his death, Roman’s friend Eugenia Kuyda reread thousands of text messages that she had exchanged with him starting in 2008, the year they met. 

Another acquaintance asks him 

if God and the soul exist...

 he says no. “Only sadness.”

Since the second half of 2017, over two million people have downloaded Replika onto their mobile devices.

A few years ago, James Vlahos, an American journalist who has been an AI enthusiast since childhood, created what he calls a “Dadbot.”

“My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between life and death by eternalizing our digital identity,” says Rahnama, who is also founder of Flybits, a cloud-based service that modifies the behavior of mobile apps based on where and how the customer is using it. “Your physical being may die, but your digital being will continue to evolve with the purpose of helping people and maintaining your legacy as an evolving being.”
Recorded in digital form, he would then create algorithms to answer questions posed to us from beyond the grave, creating a “new form of inter-generational collective intelligence”.
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