I found this post inspiring: ‘SPEAK, MEMORY – When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence‘. The approach is quite easy: build a bot with AI, feed all the messages and interactions with your past best friend, and let AI work out its miracle to provide you with interaction.
I find the idea exciting and unsettling at the same time. This solution offers a kind of immortality (at least on the basis of past expression), but also poses questions about what AI will really produce with its limitations.
In the post it seems that this approach has helped the person overcome its grief, but it may also create a situation where grieving will be suspended because of the impression to have your friend still there with you.
Therefore, this is an idea to be handled with caution. At the same time, we can expect that the concept will become more prevalent with an increased performance of AI and also an increased amount of data generated digitally during our lifetimes.
We are moving further toward a digital world inhabited by multiple versions of ourselves, some of them will survive our death. Interesting world!
