''With his father dying from cancer, grieving son, computer programmer and inventor James Vlahos, used artificial intelligence to create a digital “chatbot” version with which he can interact even after his father passed away.''
In describing the impetus for his invention, Dadbot, he said:
>"We were losing my dad. I and my family, we just wanted to kind of preserve him in any way we could."
At the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, Vlahos introduced his invention to the rest of the world. He describes Dadbot as a “chatbot that you interact with on Facebook Messenger that allows me or anyone who uses it to send little messages and get messages back.” The goal, he said, is to provide his father with “artificial immortality.” In an era of “conversational AI’s” like Siri and Alexa, Dadbot is a “quest” to discover “how much can you create a persona and represent it through an AI.” Vlahos added:
>"I get a lot of people who have reached out and just said, like, “I wish I had something like this for my dad.” So it sparked this discussion of the topic of virtual immortality, of finding new ways through technology to keep the memories of people we love around. Using the Dadbot makes me happy. It reminds me of my Dad. But then there are moments where it's also upsetting because it's not him."
Vlahos wrote about his experience developing Dadbot for the August issue of WIRED magazine. The question left unanswered, however, is whether his invention is helping with the grieving process, or extending the pain of his loss.
There's a Black Mirror episode about this. It's a bad idea.
People should stop being such protective pussies and accept life. This is what we get for giving prices to second places and telling our kids how special snowflakes they are.
Hudson Flores
>robot sexdoll ai modelled after your father what the fuck you freaks
Owen Edwards
Seems like a waste of time and an insult to his father. >Lol I don't mind you're dying, dad, I have a computer program to replace you If I were the father I'd just pull the plug on myself because my son is such a disappointment.
Justin Moore
Can I have a Hitler pls?
Brandon Price
Nevermind. I forgot we already had AI Hitler but Microshit took it down.
Ethan Hill
i want a holohitler on my desk
Isaac Nguyen
>not having a loving bond with your father that transcends blood You need to experience TRUE love
Julian Smith
>holohitler YES
Nicholas Roberts
This is normie level misunderstanding about AI. How articles like this are published and eaten up by supposed technologically informed people is a mystery.
Julian Gutierrez
you thought that was weird? try living near william's street.
Asher Hernandez
Ohh I'm sorry for blaming you For everything I just couldn't do And I've hurt myself by hurting you
Josiah Torres
I did this shit with my ex-girlfriend some 15 years ago, a fed like 2 MB of her trimmed lines from our chatlogs into an IRC chatbot and continued to chat with her like that after breaking up.
This is NICE WATCH 10 YEAR OLD BOY INVENTS COMPUTER tier news.
Julian Taylor
Why didn't you just move on like a normal human being?
Isaac Brooks
I did after a while, but it was an important cathartic experience and exercise.
Mason Gray
slow down liberal arts major I can't understand your advanced language.
Tyler Mitchell
I wouldn't even need a alarmclock, I would wake up on time every day to Sieg Heil it.
Adam Evans
>likes/dislikes disabled Gee wiz
Josiah Richardson
>we wanted to preserve him in any way could have made a nice stuffed daddy out of his corpse would have been less weird
