From customer inspection and repair to Marvel marketinggimmicks , chaffer bot have come a long way since “ SmarterChild ” hold users on AOL Instant Messenger in the other aughts . Now , Microsoft is desire to steer contrived intelligence into murky piss — namely , creating bot that mimic real , deceased people .
concord toIGN , the tech titan has filed apatentfor software system “ creating a conversational chat bot of a specific mortal ” based on “ images , voice datum , societal medium posts , electronic content , written missive , ” and any other so - called “ social data point . ” It would n’t be limited to deceased loved ones — you could also produce a chat bot for a favorite fictitious character , a living supporter or fame , or even yourself . That said , it seems reasonable to assume that at least some people would want to utilize the technology to spend sentence with those no longer with us .
Since Microsoft has yet to produce a prototype ( that we know of ) , mess of details are still up in the melody ; and the capability of each schmoose bot will likely depend on how much “ social data ” be . The patent of invention suggest that some bot will sound like their real - life counterparts or even exist as a 2D or 3D model of that somebody . They might even be program with “ a perceived sentience that he / she is , in fact , at rest . ” AsForbespoints out , this technology could take “ protection of privacy ” debate to new heights — we do n’t know to what extent people would be able-bodied to block others from creating Old World chat bots based on their own ( or their at peace congeneric ’ ) data .
We can really only estimate how walk , talking models of our dead loved ones might impress us — and society as a whole — butBlack Mirror ’s season 2 sequence “ Be Right Back ” offer a little brainstorm . Without spoiling anything , it ’s not just a glad story .
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