Talk with your dead loved ones -- through a chatbot - CNET
Dec 17, 2021 · HereAfter AI is one of a number of startups promising digital immortality through chatbots, AI and even holograms like these out of USC that let Holocaust survivors' stories live on.
Tech companies in China use AI avatars to 'resurrect' dead loved ones - NPR
Jul 21, 2024 · The rise of AI simulations of the deceased, or “deadbots” as academics have termed them, raises questions without clear answers about the ethics of simulating human beings, dead or alive.
‘Deadbots’ can speak for you after your death. Is that ethical?
May 9, 2022 · Known as a deadbot, this type of chatbot allowed Barbeau to exchange text messages with an artificial “Jessica”.
With “thanabots,” ChatGPT is making it possible to talk to the dead
Aug 4, 2023 · ChatGPT is making it possible to digitally resurrect the dead in the form of thanabots: chatbots trained on data of the deceased. A program called Project December already allows users to input...
'Digital afterlife': Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted …
'Deadbots' or 'Griefbots' are AI chatbots that simulate the language patterns and personality traits of the dead using the digital footprints they leave behind. Some companies are already...
Using A.I. to Talk to the Dead - The New York Times
Dec 11, 2023 · Can Math Help Chatbots? Dr. Stephenie Lucas Oney uses HereAfter AI, an app powered by artificial intelligence, to pose questions to her father, William Lucas, who died last year.
Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden ... - WIRED
Aug 21, 2023 · With ChatGPT and other powerful large language models, it is feasible to create a more convincing chatbot of a dead person. But doing so, especially in the face of scarce resources and...
The rise of 'grief tech': AI is being used to bring the ... - Euronews
Mar 12, 2023 · AI-powered technology is being used to develop chatbot avatars of people's deceased relatives, preserving their memories and helping with grief. In 2016, James Vlahos discovered that his father...
Microsoft patent shows plans to revive dead loved ones as chatbots ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the company to make a chatbot using the personal information of deceased people.
Chatbots that resurrect the dead: legal experts weigh in on …
Mar 1, 2021 · Microsoft’s chatbot would use your electronic messages to create a digital reincarnation in your likeness after you pass away. Such a chatbot would use machine learning to respond to text...