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When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence (theverge.com)
When Roman Mazurenko died, his friend Eugenia Kuyda created a digital monument to him: an artificial intelligent bot that could "speak" as Roman using thousands of lines of texts sent to friends and family. From the report: "It's pretty weird when you open the messenger and there's a bot of your deceased friend, who actually talks to you," Fayfer said. "What really struck me is that the phrases he speaks are really his. You can tell that's the way he would say it -- even short answers to 'Hey what's up.' It has been less than a year since Mazurenko died, and he continues to loom large in the lives of the people who knew him. When they miss him, they send messages to his avatar, and they feel closer to him when they do. "There was a lot I didn't know about my child," Roman's mother told me. "But now that I can read about what he thought about different subjects, I'm getting to know him more. This gives the illusion that he's here now."
Wasn't this the plot of a Max Headroom episode?
You can't call something AI if it pulls random text lines from a config file. Talk about an overhyped term. I presume the WordPress Hello Dolly plugin is AI too, right?
I wanted to rebuild a friend a long time ago. It really wasn't going to happen on a 386, but I figured I'd anyway get to know him better. He was not exactly excited at the prospect. Well, privacy issues, plus the fact that the whole project was not remotely plausible.
It still isn't . The AI isn't anywhere near close to being able to mimic a real person, yet. But I understand why you would try that, and... go for it.
We may not be able to live forever. It's possible that some semblance of who we were can. Call them poems of humanity.
Threatening to erase an actual AI to cover up fake AIs for fame and profit. That show was prophetic.
Like everything else, it's got it's good points and it's bad...
The whole point of (Or maybe this is just me) of dealing with someone's death, is the actual letting go part, recognising that they're gone and moving on.
Sure there are times when I miss my friends, and I think of them fondly, whether it's the way that they laughed, smiled, pulled pranks or whatever else, but I also recognise that they're gone. Having them there as a chat bot to talk to, for me, would just, I dunno, make me keep holding onto them... and I don't know if that's healthy...
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
Really. You have issues.
Stop with this "AI" bullshit. We don't have AI, and we probably never will with the way computing is going. And no, chess playing computers and "deep learning" isn't AI even though the hypesters and people wishing for VC funs fervently try to fool the ignorant into thinking it is.
Yes... it's wonderful, isn't it!
http://www.maxheadroom.com/ind...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
reminds me of Black Mirror Season Episode 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror))
Maybe "moving on" just ain't important anymore.
What's really interesting about this is how Kuyda could develop the technology. As the article says, all of us today are accumulating a digital trail of emails, text messages, social media posts, and online commentary that could be used to train this type of neural network as your digital estate.
Don't go through life as an AC.
https://xkcd.com/686/
she'll get over him soon, and find a human replacement. AI is not there yet...
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
See that "Preview" button?
One day soon a programmer will write a bot that behaves like him on social media, and since that's mainly how he interacted with friends anyway, it takes them years to realize he died.
Isn't coping with grief, why ghosts exist?
Speech and actions are low bandwidth, they don't convey the full person. You don't get the sense of them from the few words they speak each time. So over time you build up a model of that person in your head. The speech simply drives that model and tells you what they're feeling+thinking etc. based on all the previous times they spoke and acted.
As they get older, speak less, decay, the model is used more to fill in more of the detail from the less and less data they are putting out. When a person dies, you are left with this running model of them in your head. As valid as it always was, looking for stimulus to trigger on.
So the stimulus triggers on things like smells of them, items of them, things they did that trigger a memory and bring their ghost to life. The ghost is really your brain simulating them to lessen the grief.
The simulation is triggered and you imagine their ghost is alive.
AI isn't needed for that, the simulation of them is there in your head already, it just needs a trigger to fire it. So with my mum, she kept dad's room exactly as it was, and when she needs to speak to him, she goes in the room he died in and talks to him. All his stuff is there, it triggers all her memories of him, and he's not dead yet, because he's still there in her head.
"When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence"
We're supposed to not be critical of this ridiculous statement in deference to the feelings of someone who lost a love one? That's a new low in Slashdot publishing
A site I worked on back in the early '00s had a chat bot that was convincing enough for most people. When you would ask it something it would look for a similar question in the chat log and respond with the next message.
Ray Kurzweil in his Singularity books seems to think that a computer that can mimic a person is as good as that person so this guy must not be dead.
I for one detest the click-baity headline.
Do you not see the SJW under this cloak? A girl! She coded! See?
I've read or watched this sci-fi before.
necroteliphillia, or something like that.
But why wait until someone is dead?
I would be quite interested in something like this combing the internet and by text messages for all my posts and creating an AI that would respond like I would. At the very least, it could give insight to my friends and family after I've gone. Particularly if a decade after I'm dead my kids would want to ask me a question.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
They did this in various Star Trek episodes at least thrice that I can think of, using holo-technology to host it.
http://skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
One of my alltime favorite S.F. short stories (free to read online at this url) Note that the simulation of a deceased friend friend is only a small ( but important ) part of a very well-told story.
It's not any different from keeping his/her diary or photo and remembering.
Equating science with moral corruption is no different from arguing "holy iron should not be tainted with pig's blood".
It didn't go that well for Cobb. Or Mal.
We can solve every war today. Address your own sadness and it makes you more empathetic. Meditation and mindfulness class in schools. Any questions?
disrupt
Anyone know where I can apply for that job?
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