Almost certainly, though in the short term it's actually Microsoft that's already been granted a patent on resurrecting dead people as AI from their social medi

Almost certainly, though in the short term it's actually Microsoft that's already been granted a patent on resurrecting dead people as AI from their social media data. And at a certain point of looking to the future along these lines, one really has to wonder if the AI-powered resurrected dead would know that they are copies of the dead. And if not, has this all already happened long ago, and we're the unwitting copies?