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Why not chat with the dead via chatbots that capture their personality, interests, knowledge, etc.? Wouldn't this be a great way to remember people you care ab
by amichail 16y ago
Why not chat with the dead via chatbots that capture their personality, interests, knowledge, etc.?
Wouldn't this be a great way to remember people you care about?
- sliverstorm 16y agoIn other words, upload their conscious to the internet? If you can figure out how, I'm game.
- amichail 16y agoNo, I don't mean that.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI personally feel anything that's not THEM, or at least them to some arbitrary precision, would simply serve as an always-there in-your-face reminder that the person is gone. If they were actually living on in the internet- not necessarily perfectly, but enough to get people to buy it- that would help assuage grief, but we have no idea how to do that yet.
- nostrademons 16y agoThere's a TV series (Caprica) based around that...
- tptacek 16y agoYou're only saying this because it was a Max Headroom episode.
- jarek 16y agoOne word: creepy. The uncanny valley for something like this would be deeper than the Marianas.