I really want to know the model behind this chatbot
I bet whole source code of that engine can be found in Basic Usage section of https://github.com/jsvine/markovify
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence
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#12This has been one of the reasons life logging has been interesting to me. It might be a while before we can "upload" your brain, but we can build a predictive model of your behavior and leave an interactive "autobiography" much sooner.
The British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf had a character that was just such an interactive recreation.
It was implied that Rimmer had all the real Rimmer's memories and behaviour though, and was a pretty much completely accurate simulation.
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#13I really want to know the model behind this chatbot
Yes, any idea on the specifics? I wouldn't be surprised if the chat bot actually didn't work too well, but the opportunity for a good article was too much for any journalist to pass up.
You can read excerpts of the chats by clicking on a link in the article (search for "read the full chat logs").
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#14Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person?
It isn't a person, it's a chatbot.
There is even a company saying that they will try to revive people with a combination of chatlogs and brain scans or something.
Chatlogs aren't going to bridge the gap between what you can get with brain scans and what you need to do a full emulation.
Even if humanity does succeed in doing complete mind simulations, humanity will not have thereby solved death. It will have, at best, delayed it for a very very long time.
And then what? ;)
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#15This has been one of the reasons life logging has been interesting to me. It might be a while before we can "upload" your brain, but we can build a predictive model of your behavior and leave an interactive "autobiography" much sooner.
The British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf had a character that was just such an interactive recreation.
Philip K Dick, in the 1950s and 60s, wrote about simulations of famous people (like Einstein or Lincoln), of ordinary people's deceased relatives, and of other humans that were used for pleasure or entertainment. He also wrote of living people, famous or not, who turned out to be simulations.
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#16Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person? It isn't a person, it's a chatbot. There is even a company saying that they will try to revive people with a combination of chatlogs and brain scans or something. Chatlogs aren't going to bridge the gap between what you can get with brain scans and what you need to do a full emulation. Even if humanity does succeed in doing complete mind…
> Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person?
I hate to state the obvious, but, because they are emotionally heart-broken?
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#17The Max Headroom series 2 episode "Deities" was about a Vu Age church that sold A.I. recreations of loved ones as salvation.
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#18Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person? It isn't a person, it's a chatbot. There is even a company saying that they will try to revive people with a combination of chatlogs and brain scans or something. Chatlogs aren't going to bridge the gap between what you can get with brain scans and what you need to do a full emulation. Even if humanity does succeed in doing complete mind…
Then you pay rent to the server farm to keep your ancestors alive in perpetuity. Generations of them, all criticizing you from the ungrave, soon they'll have voting rights .. soon, you'll be them.
That's why we at Forever Now are offering insurance against the untimely death of a descendent. Who will be around to make sure your process isn't niced? You'll be as free and fast after life as you where in life, that's our guarantee.
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#19Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person? It isn't a person, it's a chatbot. There is even a company saying that they will try to revive people with a combination of chatlogs and brain scans or something. Chatlogs aren't going to bridge the gap between what you can get with brain scans and what you need to do a full emulation. Even if humanity does succeed in doing complete mind…
>Why are people acting like a simple chatbot is somehow a recreation of a person?
Because AI means whatever people imagine it to mean, and the media loves to take full advantage. Even "machine learning" can mean that to the lay person. The closest thing that would probably evoke an accurate reaction in a lay person would be "When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using statistics."
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#20Wasn't this the core of Stanislav Lem's Solaris?
Albeit reconstructing the personality of a loved one from someone else's memories.