Coder Turned Her Dead Best Friend into a Chat Ghost

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After her best friend died, a coder turned every text, email, and chat she could find into an A.I. of him, like in Black Mirror. What did it say? Did it make people feel better? Kim Horcher and Meredith Placko (Host, Writer) discuss!

Read more: http://www.geek.com/tech/woman-loses-her-best-friend-rebuilds-him-with-ai-1674578/

"Funerals are kind of strange. It’s often said that the whole casket, burial, eulogy thing is a process for the living and not the dead. We think we want to memorialize the ones we love, but really we’re just desperate to spend more time with them. It’s no wonder then that today’s youth have become increasingly uncomfortable with the whole process. One woman even went so far as to take the texts of her friend, and use them to memorialize him — as a chat bot.”


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