AI replica of a dead person – although it is unclear if they have any immediate plans to follow it up.The patent, entitled Creating a Conversational Chatbot of a Specific Person, was submitted in 2017, and approved in December.It details how a person’s digital footprint – their Facebook messages or Youtube videos for example – could be used to create a “model” of their personality inside a computer.Microsoft’s patent application reads: “In aspects, social data (e.g., images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages, written letters, etc.) about the specific person may be accessed."The social data may be used to create or modify a special index in the theme of the specific person's personality.”The chatbot could potentially be.
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