What is a word for ascribing divine characteristics to a machine?

We use anthropomorphize to describe when human qualities have been ascribed to non-human creatures, objects, etc.

What is a word to that captures the situation when seemingly divine (or godlike) qualities have been ascribed to machines or software?

Usage: Many of the responses to the chess match between Google's AlphaZero and Stockfish - or more precisely, the responses to some of the moves played by the former in said match - seem to be delivered in a register that _____ AlphaZero. For example, Nigel Short wrote: "On seeing the engine's games, I feel like I am in the presence of God."

Solution 1:

There is a rare word "theomorphise"/"theomorphize" which according to the OED means:

theoˈmorphize v. (transitive) to form in the image of God.

Solution 2:

Deify, as defined by Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 11th edition, fits the example given. It can mean any of the following:

1: a: to make a god of
b: to take as an object of worship
2: to glorify as of supreme worth

Solution 3:

The word that came to my mind was apotheosis, The fact or action of becoming or making into a god (Wiktionary). But this is a noun, not a verb. Wiktionary does, however, also give the rarer word apotheosize, which fits your sentence well.