Digital Resurrection? Microsoft Reportedly Gets Patent to Build AI ‘Chatbots’ Emulating Dead People

The patent potentially provides for creation or modification of “a special index in the theme of the specific person’s personality”, via the use of a person’s “social data”.

A patent for artificial intelligence that may emulate an actual person, dead or alive, has been granted to Microsoft, the Daily Star reports.

The “Creating a Conversational Chatbot of a Specific Person” patent was originally submitted back in 2017, gaining approval only in December 2020.

As the newspaper points out, this design has been compared with a certain episode of hit TV series “Black Mirror”, where a character manages to recreate her deceased boyfriend based on his social media profile.

He pointed out that the patent application was brought forth before Microsoft subjecting software to the “AI ethics reviews we do today”, noting that the concept does seem “disturbing”.

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