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Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life

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Re: Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life

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So, I have a legitimate question about this sort of thing: My grandparents are getting older, and historically their health hasn't been the greatest. I get to visit them maybe once or twice a year. I might see them less than 10 times again in my lifetime. Given current technology, is it not feasible for me to digitally preserve their personality and experiences somehow? My thought was that I could: - Use an iPhone ca…

I don't recall the guy's name. I don't even know what to google to find a link for you, but several years ago I came across an article of a man who did something similar to what you are talking about but as a Chat Bot (it was well before ChatGPT was public). He did a large number of interviews with his dying father over the course of a year. Then he transposed all the questions and answer from those interviews into a…

Could it be this one? Can you please check and see if it rings a bell?

https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...

Re: Show HN: Clone someone and talk to them like in real life

#32

So, I have a legitimate question about this sort of thing: My grandparents are getting older, and historically their health hasn't been the greatest. I get to visit them maybe once or twice a year. I might see them less than 10 times again in my lifetime. Given current technology, is it not feasible for me to digitally preserve their personality and experiences somehow? My thought was that I could: - Use an iPhone ca…

This come off so… un-human. Like a machine trying to preserve a human rather than a human trying to maximize real experiences with them.

Nah, you just have a bias along the lines of "if it weren't done before, it is unhuman".
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