The Grief Bots Are Here: Talking to the Dead Through AI
In 2016, a programmer named Eugenia Kuyda lost her closest friend, Roman Mazurenko, to a traffic accident, and did the thing she knew how to do. She gathered his text messages and built a chatbot from them, so that she could text Roman again and something with his cadences would answer. Whatever you feel reading that sentence, let it sit for a moment. Everything about this subject asks for a light touch. ...