Microsoft Could Bring You Back From The Dead… As A Chat Bot
by Barry Collins
Microsoft has filed a patent which raises the intriguing possibility of digitally reincarnating people as a chat bot.
Instead of using the conventional method of training chat bots using conversations and material from a wide sample of users, Microsoft’s patent – as spotted by Ubergizmo – raises the possibility of creating a chat bot from the output of a specific person.
The system would use “social data” such as “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages [and] written letters” to build a profile of a person.
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