Russia now has an Orthodox AI chatbot trained to answer questions about faith.
The app offers spiritual advice, generates prayers, plays church hymns, and even tracks your Bible-reading habits.
Even your spiritual life has gone digital. God is online, and apparently there’s an app for that.
Russia has unveiled its first human-like robot powered by artificial intelligence, TASS reported on November 11, citing the New Technology Coalition.
During the presentation, the robot — named Idol — unexpectedly collapsed. According to the Moscow Agency, video from the event shows the robot slowly walking onto the stage accompanied by two people, with “Gonna Fly Now” from the movie Rocky playing in the background. Idol attempted to wave, lost its balance, and fell over. The presentation was immediately halted, and the robot was carried away.
Journalist Dmitry Filonov noted that Alexey Yuzhakov, head of the National Technology Coalition, had previously warned that developers invested very little into teaching the robot how to walk. Vladimir Vitukhin, founder of Idol, explained that the issue came from the stereo cameras — they are highly sensitive to lighting conditions, and the hall was too dark.
During the robot’s second appearance, Idol managed to…
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