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There's a fictional podcast which has this as its premise: a company trains an AI on your loved one's social media corpus and then sells you the ability to cont
by jmcphers 7y ago
There's a fictional podcast which has this as its premise: a company trains an AI on your loved one's social media corpus and then sells you the ability to continue to interact with them after they're gone. A fun listen:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message
- libertine 7y agoI lost a loved in the last year and I find that idea extremely odd, if not just plain wrong. I'll listen to the podcast, but the concept of having something crawl through someones social media, namely someone you care, to emulate him/her (to become a "it") it's disturbing.
- v64 7y agoSounds like the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back": > The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it.