Does Your Robot Have Religion? Baptists Wonder If Artificial Intelligence Systems Can Usher In "A New Pentecost"

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Does Your Robot Have Religion? Baptists Wonder If Artificial Intelligence Systems Can Usher In "A New Pentecost"
The Baptist General Covention of Texas is pioneering a technologically advanced, language-barrier-breaking evangelism tool with the potential to take the gospel to the ends of the earth like never before. The tool—called Hope Chat—harnesses the power of ABBY, an advanced online artificial intelligence translation platform developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It allows people to converse across languages in real time about spiritual matters, and the technology contextually translates what people type, allowing cross-language conversations to take place. Historically, there have been two barriers to sharing the gospel—language and culture, said Wayne Shuffield, director of the BGCT Evangelism/Missions Center. The ABBY system removes one of those barriers and enables Christians to build bridges to people around the globe. In essence, organizers hope ABBY will tear down the language barrier in the most significant way since Pentecost.