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Oh god, 50 shades of SpongePants. The future is wild in ways I never imagined. Star Trek style holodecks in what, 15 years?

So, creepy thought: should we be recording audio of our parents, so we can still "hear from them" once in a while after they die? People are going to want to reconstruct their lost loved ones with AI. This project seems to imply you only need an hour or so of audio.



After my dad died, we found that he had recorded every phone call he had with us. I thought about doing this combined with text generation to create plausible prompts but never got the guts to go through with it. He wouldn't care if I had done it, but it wouldn't ease the guilt from years of sighs and rolling my eyes when he called at always the wrong times.


There is a great story of this - the creation of a "DadBot"

https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...


Sounds like a pretty unhealthy thing to do TBH :/


> So, creepy thought: should we be recording audio of our parents, so we can still "hear from them" once in a while after they die?

Wouldn't do it for me. My mother is an artist and makes the most outlandish connections between seemingly unrelated topics on a regular basis.


There is a black mirror episode about this which then extends into a whole robotic replacement for a lost loved one. As with all black mirror episodes, it’s pretty dystopian.




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