Seems that two computer programming geeks from Cornell University in the US created a pair of "chatbots" -- robots that have spoken or written human conversations stored in their memory banks.
Between the two chatbots -- Alan and Sruthi -- there were 65 million conversations with humans.
It was now time for Alan and Sruthi to talk to each other.
Sruthi soon turned the conversation to God. Asked if "he" believed in God, Alan answered: "It's not everything."
Sruthi: "Not everything could also be something. For exampe, not everything could be half of something which is still something and therefore not something."
During the conversation, Alan declares himself to be a unicorn and later tells Sruthi "she" is unhelpful which he says makes her a "meanie".
The Cornell researchers said they found the experiment surprising and concluded: "Our theory is that when these chatbots have conversations with humans, the humans are argumentative."
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Call me cynical, but I think there's a simple explanation to all that stuff in that story -- GIGO, or "garbage in, garbage out." QED.
So, are there jokes about God's existence? I like this one:
A man stumbles into a deep, dark well and plunges down 20 metres before he manages to grasp a spindly root. It stops his fall but his grip grows weaker and weaker.
He has never said a prayer in his entire life. But this time, he is desperate. "God, if you exist, please help me!" he pleads upwards.
Suddenly, light shines from above. He looks up, sees the clouds parting, and the well lit up. It is a long way down still. "Let go of the root and I will save you," a deep, majestic voice boomed.
The man thinks for a moment and then yells, "Is there anybody else up there?"
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This other joke here is probably less classy, but here goes:
Two college roommates started to debate about God (hmmm, I wonder if they were from Cornell).
He has never said a prayer in his entire life. But this time, he is desperate. "God, if you exist, please help me!" he pleads upwards.
Suddenly, light shines from above. He looks up, sees the clouds parting, and the well lit up. It is a long way down still. "Let go of the root and I will save you," a deep, majestic voice boomed.
The man thinks for a moment and then yells, "Is there anybody else up there?"
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This other joke here is probably less classy, but here goes:
Two college roommates started to debate about God (hmmm, I wonder if they were from Cornell).
One was an atheist, the other believed in the existence of God. The believer said to the non-believer, "Give me five good reasons why God does not exist and we will go from there."
The nonbeliever thought for a while and finally came up with his five reasons. He said to the believer, "Can you see God?"
"No," said the believer."Can you smell God?"
"Not really," said the believer.
"Can you touch God?"
"No," said the believer.
"What about taste?"
"No," said the believer.
"Can you hear God?".
"Ya, I can hear God, in the wind and stuff".
"Well," said the nonbeliever, "four out five. God does not exist."
Now it was the believer's turn to fire questions at the nonbeliever. He asked for a while to think about it. Finally he came back and said to his friend:
"Okay. Can you touch your brain?"
"No."
"Can you see your brain?"
"Nope."
"Can you smell your brain?"
"No."
"What about hear it?"
"I guess not," replied the nonbeliever.
"Then can you taste your brain?"
"No."
"Well then," said the believer, "I guess it is pretty obvious. Five out five, you have no brain."
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