Black Mirror is satire. I thought we were all on the same page with this.
As The Independent reports, Microsoft has been granted a patent on some tech that would allow the company to use peopleās (or even fictional peopleās) online footprint, looking for stuff like āimages, voice data, social media posts [and] electronic messages,ā and then build a chatbot out of it.
There are also provisions for people being able to train a bot made of themselves.
The patented technology would be able to create the bot out of either a āpast or present entity.āĀ The latter is problematic in its own right, since there are ten bad reasons for every good one when it comes to simulating a conversation with a person who, by virtue of being alive, could be doing the talking for themselves.
And the former is just…look, this kind of stuffĀ has been and will forever be incredibly fucked up. Let the dead rest, and spare the living the torment.
https://kotaku.com/mother-reunited-with-deceased-daughter-in-vr-show-1841561725
