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Ghosts - Believer Magazine
‘Fredbot’ is one example of a technology known as chatbots of the dead , chatbots designed to speak in the voice of specific deceased people. Other examples are plentiful: in 2016, Eugenia Kuyda built a chatbot from the text messages of her friend Roman Mazurenko, who was killed in a traffic accident. The first Roman Bot, like Fredbot, was selectiv... See more
Amy Kurzweil • Are chatbots of the dead a brilliant idea or a terrible one? | Aeon Essays
Griefbots could give the bereaved a new tool to cope with grief, or they could create the illusion that the loved one isn’t gone and force mourners to confront a second death if they want to stop using the bot.
Do ‘Griefbots’ Help Mourners Deal With Loss?
’ The wraith feels along his long jaw and says he spent the whole sober last ninety days of his animate life working tirelessly to contrive a medium via which he and the muted son could simply converse. To concoct something the gifted boy couldn’t simply master and move on from to a new plateau. Something the boy would love enough to induce him to
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
My father always said when someone dies the body is just a suit of old clothes the spirit doesn’t want anymore.
Marilynne Robinson • Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
When grief and AI collide: These people are communicating with the dead | CNN Business
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