Description
Microsoft have created a patent to create an AI-assisted chatbot using the personal information of deceased people. Very 'Black Mirror'.
Summary
- “The specific person [represented in the bot] may correspond to a past or present entity (or a version thereof), such as a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, a celebrity, a fictional character, a historical figure, a random entity etc”, a statement on the new patent says.
- We have now progressed from ‘this sounds like an episode of Black Mirror‘ to ‘that’s literally series 2, episode 1 of Black Mirror,” one user wrote on Twitter, with others joking that tech companies like Microsoft are using Charlie Brooker’s dystopian drama series as inspiration for their next inventions.
- Quick reminder to all the tech people in the audience.
- https://t.co/Aon4cfZVi7 Last month, Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones shared new Netflix documentary Death To 2020.