Microsoft Patent Chatbots to Revive Dead? We Could Now Talk to Our Deceased Loved Ones Soon

Missing your loved ones and friends who passed away? Soon, we will be virtually interacting with them using Microsoft patent chatbots that will enable us to talk to our long-gone loved ones.

Microsoft Patent Chatbots to Revive Dead?

At first, it is kind of scary to imagine how a person from the real world can make contact with another person who has already departed from the earth. This time, the possibility of the interaction is fast approaching, as Microsoft was already permitted to create chatbots that will store the information of our loved ones digitally.

CNN reported that the patent was granted to Microsoft last December, where a chatbot can be modeled to any person regardless if a person is still alive or dead. It is also possible even the chatbot will represent a fictional character, a historical person, or a famous personality, as mentioned in the filling with the U.S. Patent and the Trademark Office.

If it is released, people will recall what happened to "Black Mirror," a dystopian series wherein a character is allowed to converse with her boyfriend, who passed away after an accident. The movie was made possible when the woman retrieved all his boyfriend's information from social media.

According to Intelligent Living, Microsoft's chatbot will take the imitation to the next level. This would appear like we are only calling our deceased loved ones through phone, social media video calls, and other video calling applications.

The chatbot will flash motion pictures in 3D, and the deceased person's voice will be heard realistically - the natural voice of the person when he/she was still alive. Additionally, the chatbot can also emulate the person's traits, idiosyncrasies, and other things that he/she used to do before.

Tim O'Brien tweeted Microsoft's general manager of AI programs on Jan. 23 that the company has still no plans for the project. In another tweet, O'Brien said 'yes' when the users reported that they are feeling it to be 'disturbing' when it comes to technology.

Microsoft filed the patent in 2017.

Patent Chatbots that Serve a Similar Purpose

The idea of meeting a person from the afterlife may not sound fine to many, but to the patent inventors, Joseph Johnson Jr. and Dustin Abramson, it will depict the actual person through a set of photos, emails, and even social media information which could aid to model the particular person via chatbots.

Four years ago, Josh Bocanegra, the CEO of the robotics company, Humai worked with his plan on making a chatbot that could represent his deceased mother. This way, Bocanegra could communicate with his mother through his saved recorded audio messages, Hackread wrote.

Bocanegra noted that the artificial intelligence advancements really help the developers carry out designing algorithms, like in his case, constructing a chatbot for his mother. Moreover, the chatbot will also utilize a machine learning algorithm so the answers will not be repetitive and different questions can be asked.

Another CEO, Eugenia Kuyda of Luka, created a chatbot that imitates Roman Mazurenko's speaking habit. Mazurenko is Kuyda's friend who died in an accident. Kuyda made use of 8000 text messages from their conversations.

Last year, Kanye West purchased a hologram of Robert Kardashian, who is Kim Kardashian's late father. For three minutes, the hologram appears like a TED Talk speaker in front of Kim.

Making the chatbots that allow us to converse with our loved ones from the other side is a big technological accomplishment. It might be 'disturbing' as what O'Brien said, but wouldn't you want to have another second to talk with them?

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Written by Joen Coronel