Thursday 20 February 2014

New Startup Wants To Create Living Avatars For Dead People

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By scanning the digital footprints of our dearly departed and recreating their personality, some MIT entrepreneurs hope to use artificial intelligence to bring them back to life in the virtual world.

After sorting through all of your Facebook posts, emails, photos, and chats, a new startup called Eterni.me can use artificial intelligence to create an avatar that acts 'just like you.'

1 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

Isn't this the exact premise for the Battlestar Galactica spinoff "Caprica?"