Microsoft’s new AI chatbot concept is reminding people of 'Black Mirror'

By NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News - 2021-01-22

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.

 

Topics

  1. UX (0.28)
  2. NLP (0.1)
  3. Machine_Learning (0.08)

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