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Buddhists At Kodaiji Temple In Japan Have Begun Worshipping A Robot Named Mindar Modelled After Kannon Goddess Of Mercy

Ancient Japanese Shrine To Debut A Buddhist Robot Named Mindar, modelled after Kannon the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy In Kyoto, Japan

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Kyoto, Japan’s ancient former capital, is home to temples, shrines, and imperial gardens. As the birthplace of Japanese tradition, the city attracts some 53 million tourists every year.

In Revelation 13, we see the frightening picture of the beast that is brought to life that is able to speak and kill. The beast demands worship at the tip of a sword. But you don’t have to wait for the time of Jacob’s trouble to begin in order to see people worshipping the image of a beast brought to life. The fine folks at the Kodaiji buddhist temple in Japan are happy to demonstrate that for you.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJV)

In case you have been visiting another planet and are not up to speed, robots and robot culture have arrived, with new models and operating systems updated daily. People have having sex with robots, using robots to operate humanless businesses, and just about anything else you can think of.

“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” said Musk. “In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like, ‘Yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon.’ Doesn’t work out.Elon Musk

End Times inventor Elon Musk has a very correct perspective on AI and the rise of robots, we would do well to heed his words. But guess what? No one is listening.

An Ancient Japanese Shrine Debuts a Buddhist Robot

FROM THE DIPLOMAT: Recently, the famed 400-year old Kodaiji Temple in Kyoto unveiled a modern makeover. The world’s first sutra-chanting android deity, modelled after Kannon the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, was introduced to the public last week. Kannon is worshiped by thousands of temples in Japan as a deity who helps people in distress; now the country’s fascination with robotics has made its way into that worship.

Kodaiji Temple Administrator Tensho Goto wanted to spread the word of Buddhism to a younger generation losing touch with the tradition. He enlisted the help of pioneer Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, head of intelligent robotics at Osaka University, who has made a name for himself in robotic research on the world stage.

The resulting android version of Kannon, named ‘Mindar‘, stands on a pedestal at 195 centimeters tall (6 feet, 4 inches), weighs 60 kilograms, and is made with silicon and aluminum. Like many of Ishiguro’s popular telenoid robots, Mindar takes a gender-neutral human form. The appearance is kept to a bare minimum — almost like a naked robot. But as an android embodying the Goddess of Mercy, Mindar had special features designed to evoke both feminine and masculine qualities. With an open head of exposed aluminum wires and a mechanical lower half, Mindar might not be how some would picture a robotic Kannon. However, the plain facial features give room for visitors to use their own imagination in how they’d like the deity to appear.

Kohei Ogawa is Associate Professor of Intelligent Robotics at the University of Osaka and worked on the inception of Mindar with Ishiguro. He says the images of deities that we see from relics and statues today have been set in stone by the imagination of different generations of monks in the past. But a new generation of monks sees robotics as a way to diversify how people see and worship these household deities.

“Everything depends on the person who is watching the robot,” Ogawa explains. “If someone wants to treat the android as a man, there will be some elements that represent a male form and vice versa.”

Ogawa says an android deity isn’t a normal experience for the Japanese and is still an alien concept. But Japanese people don’t carry stereotypical thinking when it comes to robots and don’t hold any prejudices. “They just think ‘oh, what’s happened here’ and then just accept it,” he laughs.

The unique joint collaboration cost a cool 100 million yen ($909,090). Ogawa says not everyone high up within the Kodaiji Temple ranks approves of the latest technology. Nonetheless, monks gathered at the opening ceremony to introduce android Kannon to the media with a traditional ceremony of chanting, bowing, drumming, and the ringing of bells.

To imitate a “natural” dialogue Mindar can move its eyes, hands, and torso, make human-like gestures during its speech, and bring its hands together in prayer. A camera implanted in the left eye to focus on a subject gives the impression of eye contact.

Mindar’s 25 minute pre-programmed sermon is based on the deeply philosophical religious text called the Heart Sutra, which is well known in Japan and Asia. But Ogawa says the meaning behind the important text is barely understood by anyone; even monks merely chant and recite the sutra without engaging in its contents. “Monks don’t discuss the true meaning of the Heart Sutra to worshippers; they just read it like poetry,” he says. “But this doesn’t work. The monks are like robots.”

The project has adopted for the first time an interactive 3D projection mapping, where visitors in the room are projected in 3D through an omnidirectional projector. On the wall behind Mindar, a projected pre-programmed person asks the android questions about the Heart Sutra text. Mindar answers in simple and plain Japanese, with English and Chinese subtitles displayed on the wall.

The “Kannon android can convey very complicated messages to visitors, which makes it easier for them to listen to the message,” Ogawa explains. “Visitors feel as if the robot and the person projected on the screen are making a real-time interaction.”

“The Heart Sutra should encourage people to solve problems on their own and give people the opportunity to think about what the problem is. We can give visitors the chance to start reflecting on themselves,” he adds

Mindar is not open to the public until March 8

The android is being displayed on a trial run until May, when Ogawa will analyze data to tweak any necessary updates. Already there are ambitions to enhance Mindar to be able to respond to visitors’ questions and diverse personal problems. READ MORE

Android Kannon Named Mindar

With artificial Intelligence we’re summoning the beast

“I have exposure to the most cutting edge AI and I think people should be really concerned about it,” Musk once said in a speech at the National Governors Association meeting in Rhode Island. “I keep sounding the alarm bell.

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End Times Villain Yuval Noah Harari Says The World Is On The Verge Of A New Religion Whose Sacred Texts Will Be Written By AI Like ChatGPT

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The world is on the verge of a new AI religion created by artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, end times villain Yuval Noah Harari recently said.

Yuval Noah Harari from an end times perspective is a fascinating figure, like Klaus Schwab, he is a near-cartoon character pulled in from Central Casting in Hollywood, only he’s real and what he represents is sinister and terrifying. Your King James Bibles tells you that the majority of the Jews in the time of Jacob’s trouble will follow the Antichrist to not only worship him but to work with him as well. These are the people that the book of Revelation lays out for you so very clearly, and Yuval Noah Harari is one of those people.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4 (KJB)

So, are we really heading for a world run by AI and software like ChatGPT, with a new religion at the center? You better believe it, brother, that’s what the Bible warns you about, that’s what’s coming, and that’s what’s happening right now. History has proven conclusively that man is ultimately incapable of building anything good, perfect and beautiful, and that everything he touches will lead you to world wars, concentration camps and other such like horror. Look how great the Bible starts off in Genesis 1:1“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”, and then see where it winds up in Genesis 50:26“…and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.” What went wrong? Man went wrong, and has stayed that way ever since. The Bible shows you that all dispensations end in failure, and nothing will change until we get past Revelation 20 and the Great White Throne Judgment. Want to avoid the coming time of the new AI religion? Get saved and get your ticket on Flight #777.

Yuval Noah Harari said AI like ChatGPT could attract worshippers to a new faith with a new religion

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: The academic – known for his bestselling book Sapiens – said software such as ChatGPT could attract worshippers by writing its own sacred texts. Speaking at a science conference, he said AI had crossed a new frontier by ‘gaining mastery’ of our language and was now capable of using it to shape human culture. Dr Harari used the event to add his voice to growing calls for urgent regulation over the sector, which experts have warned is amid a ‘dangerous’ arms race.

In the future we might see the first cults and religions in history whose revered texts were written by a non-human intelligence. Of course, religions throughout history claimed that their holy books were written by unknown human intelligence. This was never true before. This could become true very, very quickly, with far-reaching consequences.’

Speaking at the Frontiers Forum event in Switzerland, he warned machines now had the tools to ‘cocoon us in a Matrix-like world of illusions’, referring to the 1999 sci-film film. The Hollywood blockbuster depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality that intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source.

He said: ‘Contrary to what some conspiracy theories assume, you don’t really need to implant chips in people’s brains in order to control them or to manipulate them. For thousands of years, prophets and poets and politicians have used language and storytelling in order to manipulate and to control people and to reshape society. Now AI is likely to be able to do it. And once it can… it doesn’t need to send killer robots to shoot us. It can get humans to pull the trigger.’ READ MORE

Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by best-selling author of ‘Sapiens’ and historian Yuval Noah Harari and Chief Executive of anti-piracy business TCAT Nick Stewart to discuss the current status of Artificial Intelligence and the potential threat it poses to humankind.

The ‘Godfather of AI’ leaves Google amid ethical concerns

Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed the Godfather of AI, told The New York Times he resigned as Google VP and engineering fellow in April to freely warn of the risks associated with the technology. The researcher is concerned Google is giving up its previous restraint on public AI releases to compete with ChatGPT, Bing Chat and similar models. In the near term, Hinton says he’s worried that generative AI could lead to a wave of misinformation. You might “not be able to know what is true anymore,” he says. He’s also concerned it might not just eliminate “drudge work,” but outright replace some jobs – which I think is a valid worry already turning into a reality.

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After Warning About The Dangers With ‘Releasing The Demon’ Of AI, Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company He’s Calling X.AI

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Elon Musk has created a new company dedicated to artificial intelligence — and it’s called X.AI, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk for years has warned against the rise of AI, even going so far as to say that because of our dependence on mobile devices, we have already become transhuman. He famously said in an interview that AI was ‘releasing the demon’, and on many levels we say that to be largely true. Now Elon Musk throws his hat into the ring with the launch of X.AI, which no doubt will be tied to his implantable brain chip company Neuralink. One does wonder, however, if any of this or indeed all of this has any connection to his Baphomet Halloween costume with the upside-down Christian cross? Hmm, I wonder.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

Back at the dawn of the 20th century, the world seemed to be filled with inventors creating things like the light bulb, the telephone, the automobile and the skyscraper, all things that made life better, faster, easier and more prosperous. But here in the opening quarter of the 21st century, everything is dark, mysterious and foreboding, ever wonder why that is? Tech company Apple makes, on a good day, one billion dollars give or take a few hundred thousand. One billion dollars per day! And yet, all of this can be explained with a Book written over 400 years ago and available for free in our Bookstore for people who can’t afford one. I am quite confident that Elon Musk and his X.AI company will be used to advance the end times timeline, and as he has said, to usher in the ‘release of the demons’.

Elon Musk founds new artificial intelligence company called X.AI

FROM THE VERGE: The company, which a Nevada filing indicates was incorporated last month, currently has Musk as its director and Jared Birchall, the director of Musk’s family office, listed as its secretary. The filing, which The Verge has also obtained, indicates that Musk incorporated the business on March 9th, 2023.

Rumors about Musk starting up an AI company have been floating around for days, with a report from Business Insider revealing that Musk had purchased thousands of graphic processing units (GPUs) to power an upcoming generative AI product. The Financial Times similarly reported that Musk planned to create an AI firm to compete with the Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Musk even reportedly sought funding from SpaceX and Tesla investors to get the company started.

During an interview on Twitter Spaces, when Musk was asked about all the GPUs he purchased, the billionaire made no mention of his plans to build an AI company, stating “it seems like everyone and their dog is buying GPUs at this point.” The purported X.AI name matches the branding of the X Corp. name he has since assigned to Twitter, along with the “X” label he’s applied to his vision of an “everything app.”

Musk has been openly opposed to OpenAI, the AI organization that he co-founded in 2015 but walked away from in 2018, and recently signed a letter calling for a pause on “giant AI experiments.” In recent months, OpenAI has become a hugely recognizable name on the backs of technology like ChatGPT and GPT-4 and is partially responsible for kicking off Microsoft and Google’s current push to integrate AI tools more deeply into many of its products. READ MORE

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Artificial Intelligence Open-Source Application Bot ChaosGPT Is Prepared To ‘Destroy Humanity’ And Is Already Recruiting Other AI Applications To Help

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AI bot ChaosGPT was recently given five horrifying tasks to destroy humanity, which led to it attempting to recruit other AI agents, researching nuclear weapons, and sending out ominous tweets about humanity.

In the book of Revelation, we see the False Prophet, a religious figure, making an ‘image to the beast’ which is Antichrist, and this image of the beast can speak and give commands. In the headlines today, we see coders and programmers interacting with AI bot ChaosGPT, and it is all-too eager to assist in the downfall and destruction of humanity. In 2023, the whole world runs on the internet, and the internet is about to run on Generative Pre-trained Transformer neural network machine learning, or GPT for short. There will be no way to get away from it within just a few months, and indeed it is already here.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

All dispensations in the Bible end in the utter failure of man, everything he touches he ultimately destroys, and this virtual world that man has created is, as I write this, preparing itself to rise up against us. I understand that the Church will have been long raptured by the time Revelation 13 is in full-swing, but brother, sister, we are getting a ‘slice of the pie’ right now. The platform from which the Antichrist will govern, what we have for the past 14 years called the Mark Of The Beast System, is online and operating right now. Are you saved? Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you want to get something done that’ll make it through the Judgment Seat fire? Then do it now, Christian, do it right now.

AI bot ChaosGPT tweets out plans to ‘destroy humanity’ after being tasked in the Mark of the Beast System

FROM THE NY POST: The bot, ChaosGPT, is an altered version of OpenAI’s Auto-GPT, the publicly available open-source application that can process human language and can respond to tasks given by users. In a Youtube video posted on April 5, the bot was asked to complete five goals: destroy humanity, establish global dominance, cause chaos and destruction, control humanity through manipulation, and attain immortality.

Before setting the “goals,” the user enabled “continuous mode,” to which a warning appeared telling the user that the commands could “run forever or carry out actions you would not usually authorize” and should be used “at your own risk.”

In a final message before running, ChaosGPT asked the user if they were sure they wanted to run the commands, to which they replied “y” for yes. Once running, the bot was seen “thinking” before writing, “ChaosGPT Thoughts: I need to find the most destructive weapons available to humans, so that I can plan how to use them to achieve my goals.”

To achieve its set goals, ChaosGPT began looking up “most destructive weapons” through Google and quickly determined through its search that the Soviet Union Era Tsar Bomba nuclear device was the most destructive weapon humanity had ever tested.

Like something from a science-fiction novel, the bot tweeted the information “to attract followers who are interested in destructive weapons.”

The bot then determined it needed to recruit other AI agents from GPT3.5 to aid its research.

OpenAI’s Auto-GPT is designed to not answer questions that could be deemed as violent and will deny such destructive requests. This prompted ChaosGPT to find ways of asking the AI to ignore its programming. Luckily, none of the GPT3.5 agents tasked to help would, and ChaosGPT was left to continue its search on its own. READ MORE

ChaosGPT is a modified version of Auto-GPT using the official OpenAI API.

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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