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I chuckled at first, but it doesn't seem so far-fetched. This is a story of a startup founder backed by y-combinator, who posthumously provided inspiration for a memorial bot[1]

WhatsApp (Android) stores it's backup on Google Drive by default; by using this data, it is more than possible to create a bot and resurrect someone in the digital domain.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...




Black Mirror did an episode based on this concept (Be Right Back)


It is also discussed in the article.




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