Vatican Approves First Robotic Priest
Recently the Vatican secretly approved the first ordained robot priest. With the advancement of artificial intelligence, they felt it was viable option for mass and confession. Typically it takes 7 years for a Catholic priest to be ordained, then another 3 years of apprenticeship. But with this robot, build time is only 4 months and once the programming is finalized, it takes only a few minutes to upload. All of the church scandals have left it short on priests. This could quickly fill this shortfall. But some critics feel that a soulless robot can never do the job of a human.
The current model has some limited capabilities, like being stationary. However, it has a large vocabulary speaking 25 languages. It’s AI, or artificial intelligence, has the ability to carry on deep conversations ranging from the meaning of life to the churches stance on gay rights. And if it doesn’t know the answer to a question, it notifies a human priest via it’s built in computer network. Then the priest answers the question and sends it back to the robot, all in seconds.
