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Fri, Jan 29th 2021 7:39pm — Timothy Geigner Every once in a while, you come across some story about chatbots. These tend to range from fun stories about how someone makes a chatbot to make some interaction more efficient to some large company making a chatbot that turns out to be horrifically racist thanks to its interactions with the general public. Good times all around, in other words. 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 c...

A Microsoft patent describes technology to create chatbots of specific people. The technology could be used to create chatbots of dead people, fictional characters, and relatives. Similar technology has appeared in media, such as Black Mirror. In one of the more bizarre stories that we'll cover this week, a Microsoft Patent recently emerged for technology that could be used to create chatbots of dead people (via The Independent). The technology would use content such as "images, voice data, social media posts, [and] electronic messages" to create a chatbot that simulates a specific person. Th...