Just days after tweeting that tech designed to emulate dead loved ones would be available to the "masses" by the end of the year, Pratik Desai, a computer scientist and AI investor, has done a full 180 — and all it took was watching a single "Black Mirror" episode.to find ways to extend life beyond death by making use of AI technology.
"Start regularly recording your parents, elders and loved ones," computer scientist and AI investor Pratik Desai It's a harrowing narrative that reflects the broader concerns surrounding this unsettling tech, which could stand to have a major impact on the way that we grieve and remember our loved ones.
Losing loved ones is painful, and building shrines and tributes to our dead is just as human as death itself. Historically, humans have built altars and even pyramids or dedicated entire holidays to remember the ones that we've lost. Today, we get tattoos, we keep their t-shirts and voicemails, and maybe, on occasion, send messages to the digital void that is their now-vacant Facebook profile.