Microsoft patent reveals chatbot to talk to dead people

Microsoft Patent Regarding A Conversational Chatbot For The Deceased: A Question Of Ethical Standing?

The amount of people who give in to the grief of a loved one passing away does make one wonder whether things would be different if the aggrieved could still talk to the deceased. Well, fortunately, or unfortunately, that is no longer a speculation today.

According to a patent that was filed in 2017 by Microsoft and only granted until this month, the idea of a conversational chatbot that brings a ‘past entity’ back to life does not seem too far off. 

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The patent, invented by Dustin Abramson and Joseph Johnson, Jr. was titled “Creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person” and it describes a system that would use images, voicemails, social media posts, electronic messages, and similar data to ‘create or modify a special index in the theme of a specific person’s personality.’

In fact, additional data such as video or audio recordings could be used to apply voice and facial recognition algorithms to make a 2D or 3D model of the person to enhance the chatbot.

This system would not only allow the users to converse with the departed but also revisit the momentous events in their lives and call them occasionally. This could be done through their laptop, their cellphone, or even Alexa or Siri.

While conversing with the chatbox, if the user asks a question that cannot be answered by using the soc ..

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