Vatican + Microsoft Create A.I.-Assisted ‘Twin’ of St. Peter’s Basilica
To celebrate the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year of Jubilee festivals in 2025, which are expected to draw 30 million pilgrims, the Vatican has partnered with Microsoft to unveil a meticulously crafted, A.I.-aided reconstruction of St Peter’s Basilica, a digital twin that will enable guests to immersively interaction with it both in person and online. According to NCR:
For three weeks, drones led by the French company Iconem hovered inside and above St. Peter’s Basilica, taking over 400,000 highly detailed pictures of every nook and cranny of the massive structure. AI technology coordinated the drones, which used lasers to detect the exact location of the objects they photographed. The data was collected by state-of-the-art AI processors that used a special algorithm to scan all the pictures and reconstruct the basilica.
The project captured 22 petabytes of data, or 22 million gigabytes. For those unable or unwilling to travel to the Vatican for the Jubilee, the reconstructed basilica will be available for viewing in January, both through a dedicated website and also through Minecraft Education. Pope Francis said of the project:
This house of prayer for all peoples has been entrusted to us by those who have preceded us in faith and apostolic ministry. Therefore, it is a gift and a task to care for it, in both a spiritual and material sense, even through the latest technologies.”
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30 million unsaved, un-elect deceived global cult members. Sad.