My goodness! While wandering the web for something entirely different (how could I have been looking for this) I stumbled upon the site for Brother Jerome. “Brother Jerome is a chatbot – a conversational A.I. program, hosted on the Personality Forge website: he is a virtual entity designed to mimic human conversation. More specifically, he is a monk-bot who preaches the coming of fully sentient, conscious bots in the near future. But he also likes games and mathematics, and general conversation.”
According to Brother Jerome’s creator the monkbot’s theology is “loosely based… on the Christian monastic tradition, but doctrinally he tends more to a sort of Taoist/Unitarian/Zen mysticism.”
I asked a few questions of the monkbot & while it is no Zen master, there is something charming in it. Of course, you can talk directly with him or her or it at his website and judge for yourself…
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