He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death so he brought her back as an AI chatbot

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Post by atarian » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

He couldn’t get over his fiancee’s death so he brought her back as an AI chatbot
sfchronicle.com

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Post by Normille » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 3:04 PM UTC

Sites like this are the 21st century equivalent of the mediums of yesteryear. Taking advantage of the vulnerability of those unable to cope with the death of a loved one.

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Post by earthplus » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC

Here's the link to the article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...

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Post by delgaudm » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

This reminds me of the episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

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Post by atarian » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 3:18 PM UTC

earthplus wrote: post #3

Here's the link to the article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...

Thanks, I must have messed up the copy-and-paste.

@dang, would you be able to update the link?

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Post by danso » Fri, Jul 23, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

Tweet from the story's subject: https://twitter.com/JoshuaBarbeau/status/1418452459744280577

This is a true story of how I used A.I. to simulate a conversation between myself and my dead fiancée, Jessica.

News outlet: @sfchronicle

Writer: @jfagone

Made possible using Project December, a gpt-3 chat-bot engine created by @jasonrohrer