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Microsoft patent shows plans to revive dead loved ones as chatbots
americanuckradio.com ^ | 01/20/2021 | Adam Smith

Posted on 01/23/2021 7:13:35 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: freedumb2003

I thought you might go there but it’s not the same thing. That attraction uses actual statements made by Lincoln during his lifetime. It is no different than a motion picture depiction of a real figure from history. In fact, a motion pictured depiction is closer to this new idea because they put words in the historical figures mouth that were never spoken during that person‘s actual lifetime. On the other hand, no one takes either the Disney attraction or a movie to actually represent the real person.

This news report presents something different. If I understand this story about the Microsoft patent correctly, what they are proposing is creating a virtual representation that continues to present a reflection of a person’s being after death. I suppose you could say that to a very small degree this is already happened with television commercials that digitally use the image of deceased celebrities like John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, but I don’t think we are doing anything at all like what this new idea represents.


41 posted on 01/23/2021 8:15:02 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve believed for many many years, long before the technology was available, that the end times image of the beast is some form of advanced AI coupled with MSM painting a flattering halo around those Satan chooses to empower,

All these years later our current reality in 2021 has become even more frightening than what I saw coming way back then and to think how much further along this can move forward toward that end given enough years of advancement, also we can now include Social Media tyranny in the mix to actively engage those in their reprobate evil beyond just being passive participants,

Do I believe this is Necromancy as talking to the Dead and condemned in the Holy Bible, no, but do I believe that Demonic spirits could inhabit a system like this? yes very possible, much more for them to gain than inhabiting idols of stone and receiving worship and deceiving people,


42 posted on 01/23/2021 8:34:11 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Here:
https://theconversation.com/holographic-history-is-making-night-at-the-museum-a-reality-153256

Disney does something similar with a Holographic Abraham Lincoln.....

It used to be only the purview of large institutions.....


43 posted on 01/23/2021 8:35:59 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: BenLurkin

Download MicrosoftGolem™ app today, unless you are white.


44 posted on 01/23/2021 8:37:05 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: nevergore

That is if it were done honestly. What if they take a historical figure (who found be someone’s loved one) and manipulate the chatbot into supporting things the living person would never have done? Who would know? Surely not the people absorbing the “new” information. It sounds like a great opportunity to alter history into whatever they want it to be.

Given the history of all of these Big Tech companies, I would not trust anything they are doing to “help mankind.”


45 posted on 01/23/2021 8:39:27 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: freedumb2003

I am a “Headroom” fan. I remember the episode where it was a scam that Edison Carter investigation.

Thanks for the memory!


46 posted on 01/23/2021 8:40:57 AM PST by Ace's Dad (Trump 2020!)
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To: freedumb2003

I am a “Headroom” fan. I remember the episode where it was a scam that Edison Carter investigation.

Thanks for the memory!


47 posted on 01/23/2021 8:40:58 AM PST by Ace's Dad (Trump 2020!)
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To: nevergore

That still doesn’t seem the same to me. In the article at the link explained that historical figures are discussing the way in which they used to live thousands of years ago. This patent is for things going forward. Again, if I understand correctly. So for example you might have a social media account reporting to be that of Abraham Lincoln discussing the Trump impeachment.


48 posted on 01/23/2021 8:45:33 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

The application I noted was for your own personal being and not one of someone else......

Of course, if People can self-identify as something they are not why not AI’s...


49 posted on 01/23/2021 8:49:54 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: nevergore

The article that was posted to start this thread referenced historical figures. Pretty tough for a dead person to create a chatbot of their own personal self.


50 posted on 01/23/2021 8:51:45 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Well that is the exception, Historical societies would be left with that task.....


51 posted on 01/23/2021 8:57:31 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: nevergore

The application I noted was for your own personal being and not one of someone else......”

Which application? The one described in the link in your post number 43? Because I went back and looked at it again and that article seems to be entirely within the context of presenting historical figures in a museum setting.


52 posted on 01/23/2021 9:06:47 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: freedumb2003
I also want a night vision casket cam so people can see my decomposition in real time.

"Is it soup yet?"

53 posted on 01/23/2021 9:16:36 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Salamander

Excellent Howard Hesseman performance.


54 posted on 01/23/2021 9:23:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve always like him.


55 posted on 01/23/2021 9:25:33 AM PST by Salamander (They Elected Aqualung!)
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To: hoagy62

Just imagine how they could make them “evolve” and try to get you to “evolve.” Seems like a lot of manipulation opportunities.


56 posted on 01/23/2021 10:05:54 AM PST by Whyfor
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To: BenLurkin

Reminds me of the HeeCee novels.


57 posted on 01/23/2021 10:57:56 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

As yah beat me to it.😁


58 posted on 01/23/2021 10:59:05 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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"Microsoft has been granted a patent that would allow the
company to make a chatbot using the personal
information of deceased people."

Check out the "Alex Benedict" SciFi novels by
Jack McDevitt. In McDevitt's novels people leave
holographic AI replicas of themselves after they've
passed on in his novels.

59 posted on 01/23/2021 11:26:18 AM PST by StormEye
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Hey, if John Wayne can be Ghengis Kahn the sky is the limit!


60 posted on 01/23/2021 2:30:04 PM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of biteme and the whore)
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