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Previous: Microsoft nabs patent that could turn the deceased into AI chatbots – Happy Mag
Microsoft has gone full Black Mirror mode and secured a patent that turns dead people into AI chatbots. WTF.
The patent, titled “Creating a conversational chatbot of a specific chatbot of a specific person,” describes a system that would access “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages” to “create or modify a special index in the theme of the specific person’s personality.”
In some cases, the audio-visual data could be used to create a 3D model, a sort of interactive memorial to the deceased person. The patent also suggests that that living users could train a digital replacement in…
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