Father Skynet
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It is a lazy attempt to be trendy by adding a chatbot to a site conceived to answer questions about the Catholic faith around the clock and over multiple time zones. It is not a grave concern except for the unfortunate decision to use an anthropometric personalization of a Priest rather than a generic Question and Answer forum. Speaking with true authority requires a real person.
In a world craving real human love, not virtual, this is a step in the wrong direction.
I have to argue with my 06 sedan to get it to do what I want. I can’t be alone in this.
Why are people so keen on AI?
Hmmm. Let me think. Made in the image and likeness of God versus made in the image and likeness of sinful man. I’ll take the human thank you. All one needs to do is look at what Google did with its AI on the founding fathers. Garbage in garbage out. I get the need to meet people where they are, and such a lot of American society is completely vapid, maybe they need to do this but I can’t see it.
AI has its limitations. It cannot think critically and respond to complicated questions. It can only scan through the Bible, the CCC and produce technical answers devoid of any depth related to the deep question in front of it. When we talk to a priest in the confessional, he is counselling based on his knowledge of Catholic Theology and Doctrine, the Gospel AND his human experience, empathy etc… What human experience or empathy does AI offer? None. It’s a robot.
I don’t trust AI. I don’t see the need for it other than it replacing the costs associated with paying humans to do a job. The suspicious thing about AI is that, we already have lost the attention span to ably concentrate beyond short sound bites, due to the smart phone, so how much more superficial and instant can human thinking and understanding recede to now that we are having AI thrust upon on us?
Abominable.
Chapters 2,3,5,7,8,10,12,13,15,17-298
Verses 14,4,56,16,7,29,1,56,50,2 respectfully.
Highly Illogical.