Would you pay $10 to create AI chatbot of dead loved one?

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Would you pay $10 to create an AI chatbot to talk again to a dead loved one?

Death is inescapable. Everyone experiences grief at some point in their lives, whether it's when a relative, friend, or pet passes away.

of how one man primed a GPT-3-powered chatbot with text messages from his dead fiancée so that he could talk to her again went viral last year. A software mimic essentially helped Joshua Barbeau come to terms with the death of Jessica Pereira, a woman he met and fell in love with a decade ago. Universal TelevisionAfter that San Francisco Chronicle article, people flocked to Project December, the technology Barbeau used, to spin up their own AI chatbots.

"I decided to build a special purpose service when I saw such a desire in the community around Project December after the SF Chronicle story," Rohrer told."I wanted to build something better for those people. Hopefully, they get the help they were looking for out of this experience." "Depending on the intention, conversations can be funny, creepy, profound, weird, spiritual, or even comparable to a healing process," we're told. He has even tried spinning up a chatbot to model a conversation with his dead future self.

 

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katyanna_q Wasn't this a Black Mirror episode?

One person we spoke to who trained the bot to talk like his now-passed grandmother as well as Steve Jobs and others, said: 'Depending on the intention, conversations can be funny, creepy, profound, weird, spiritual, or even comparable to a healing process'

No. But I would pay $10 for a chatbot doing all the chatting for me

Will I have to pay someone not to do that?

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