This is a weird darkness bonus bite.

Yeah, this isn't creepy at all.

The tech giant Microsoft has raised the possibility of creating an AI-based chatbot that would

be built upon the profile of a person which includes their images, voice, data, social

media posts, electronic messages among other types of personal information, according to

IGN.

It's understood that the chatbot would then be able to simulate human conversation through

voice commands and or text chats.

The patent explains that the chatbot could be a historical figure, a celebrity, a friend

or relative or even a copy of the user creating or training the chatbot.

The patent is literally straight out of a black mirror episode, the dystopian series created

by Charlie Brooker.

In an episode called Be Right Back, a young woman's boyfriend called Ash is killed in a

car accident but she decides to bring him back in the form of a technology which uses

artificial intelligence to mimic her lover's speech patterns, mannerisms and knowledge.

This virtual Ash is then downloaded into a synthetic body but the woman struggles to accept

it as a replacement for her actual boyfriend and ends up locking the android in an attic.

This humanist elitists have long dreamed to be able to achieve immortality by preserving

their consciousness after death and uploading it to a computer.

In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that humans will

be uploading their minds to computers by the year 2045 and that bodies will be replaced

by machines before the end of the century.

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