Japan's robot deity delivers Buddha's teaching

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/26/japans-robot-deity-delivers.html

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[PatrickD]

I know no Japanese, but wouldn’t this essentially just be a podcast with a fancy interface? Or does she answer questions as well?

[LurksNoMore]

Now I’m imagining a weird SF future where Japan is almost entirely populated by robots and AIs who keep the Japanese culture going on as if carbon-based citizens weren’t a rounding error in the census.

[cannibalpeas]

Well I learned about Buddhism from Keanu Reeves in black face, so I can imagine this may just work.

[UUbuntu]

Ah, now that movie showed an earlier prototype of robotic delivery of Buddhist teachings

[Jorpho]

I dimly recall one point in decades past when some religious authority decreed that a compact disc bearing the contents of the Tripitaka (or maybe it was some lengthier commentary?) could be the focus of veneration? Google is not helping me with the details.

[anon75430791]

Reminds me of one of the shorts from “Doomsday Book”. A robot which attains enlightenment.

Great film anthology. Highly recommended.

[Grey_Devil]

Embrace tranquility

[Papasan]

Better than the real thing, um…

[Yri]

Surprised no one has mentioned The Nine Billion Names of God

[MadLibrarian]

I don’t know if this is the short story that spawned the video, but I was sufficiently impressed by it to keep the copy of Analog it was in: Buddha Nature by Amy Thomson. Still looking for an accessible link for the story.

[Ratel]

The uncanny sutra.

[anon55609254]

The Catholic Church should adopt these. ASAP.

[RickMycroft]

Robot JWs at the door.

[Boundegar]

I don’t think this is a deity, it’s just Robot Buddha. Kami no Robo is Shinto, not really Buddhist.

[Slant]

Oh shit. You know what this means. After the Russian hackers have their way w/ this bot, the Buddhists will be utterly infiltrated by Trump-style devotees.

[Sludge]

Hopefully it is not based on the Microsoft Tay engine.

[madmolecule]

This is the first time in decades I’ve wanted to go to church.

[Mangochin]

But can he airbend?

[wolfman_al2]

This is another proof that we live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
I only know stuff like this from Gibson novels.