Microsoft patent details tech that could turn dead people into AI chatbots – CNET

In the 2013 Black Mirror episode Be Right Back, a grieving woman interacts with a digital re-creation of her dead boyfriend.  
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An AI chatbot that lets you interact with dead loved ones sounds like something straight out of science fiction. But if technology in a patent granted to Microsoft comes to fruition, interacting with a chatty 3D digital version of the deceased could one day become de rigueur. 
The patent, titled “Creating a conversational chatbot of a specific chatbot of a specific person,”…

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