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Call me cynical but this just sounds like a hook for their new service, Google Séance.

• johnnycab 7y ago
  I chuckled at first, but it doesn't seem so far-fetched. This is a story of a startup founder backed by y-combinator, who posthumously provided inspiration for a memorial bot[1] WhatsApp (Android) stores it's backup on Google Drive by default; by using this data, it is more than possible to create a bot and resurrect someone in the digital domain. [1] https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...
  • giggsey 7y ago
    Black Mirror did an episode based on this concept (Be Right Back)
    • johnnycab 7y ago
      It is also discussed in the article.