MS Patent: Chat With Your Deceased Loved Ones

The Independent reports:

Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the company to make a chatbot using the personal information of deceased people. The patent describes creating a bot based on the “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages”, and more personal information.

“The specific person [who the chat bot represents] may correspond to a past or present entity (or a version thereof), such as a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, a celebrity, a fictional character, a historical figure, a random entity etc”, it goes on to say.

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Microsoft has filed a patent that would allow the company to digitally revive deceased loved ones as chatbots, using the individual’s “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages” and more. 💀 https://t.co/px8fYEiFyL pic.twitter.com/rwymDkXUzV

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