S1001: The Dadbot

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Does death start when your heart stops beating? What if technology can extend our lives and gives us immortality? Today's episode is about one son who turned his dying father into a chatbot. Here After AI https://www.hereafter.ai/ Replika https://replika.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creative battle.
0:10.9	Some people have all the luck.
0:13.2	That's just not the case for my friend, Christina.
0:16.6	Here's a story.
0:17.6	At the beginning of 2020, I woke up one day and I had just like the worst stomach pain
0:23.0	of my life.
0:24.0	Couldn't figure it out.
0:25.0	Like, it was absolutely awful.
0:27.8	So of course I'm thinking it's appendicitis.
0:30.0	It was so bad though that like I couldn't stand up straight, I was like cry, it was terrible.
0:35.6	Christina ended up getting admitted to the hospital for a whole week.
0:39.3	They wouldn't even let her eat the entire time she was there.
0:44.8	They have no idea what's wrong with me.
0:46.8	All they know is that my liver is swollen and they can't really figure out why.
0:51.5	After a week, they released Christina from the hospital without ever figuring out exactly
0:55.8	what was wrong.
0:57.5	They never even followed up.
0:59.6	So I was like, well, that was a weird thing.
1:02.7	Whatever.
1:03.7	Then March 2020 came around and we all know what happened.
1:07.4	The world pretty much shut down.
1:09.7	And to make matters worse, Christina's husband lost his job.
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