You could upload dead loved ones to your computer by end of year: tech guru

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Your loved ones that died by the end of this year won't represent well.

If they lived a full life, they might have accumulated a minimal set of training material, they weren't a digital native.

If they died young, there will be a lot of their on-line persona as a digital native, but how many people have the same persona on-line and off-line?

Meanwhile, upload enough of those training sets, and AI will populate many wealthy suburbs' worth of fake people based on them. ChatGPT, give me the Facebook profile for a 27-year-old female marketing manager who looks like Kendall Jenner and lives in St Louis with her chocolate Lab puppy named Gizmo.

This is disturbing and, to me, sad.

Of course nobody will be talking to their "loved ones", just a very smart replica of their past behaviors and manners.

But, beyond that, how sad it is that we seek to brush aside a very important aspect of life: the capacity to let go

I feel like most people will instinctively turn away from simulating their loved ones. For the ones who want to try it, my bet is they'll reconsider pretty quickly, but I wouldn't stop them from trying.

Something from the article bothered me more, a guy did this in 2021 with chats from his dead girlfriend. How much worse would the simulation be back then, and how much better will it be in the future?

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