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When Justin’s mom was diagnosed with cancer, he knew he wanted to keep talking to her after she died. So together they made an AI version of her, training it on her speech patterns and memories. Now he is scaling his findings so that anyone can continue their relationships with loved ones after their deaths. Justin even believes this can one day lead to digital immortality.
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what I was trying to preserve is the relationship with my mom. And my relationship is unique to my mom. So it's not necessarily about saving my mom's personality. It's about saving my mom's personality for me.
“We ended up confusing the process because there was dynamics shifted over time, right? So I went from talking to her as a 34-year-old to talking to her as a 39-year-old and there was two very different people, right?”
“Our brains, when wired for love, are not wired for loss, that belief isn't just rationally revised away.”
“anything an avatar does is out of character for my mom. As we age, we change what we would or wouldn't do. What does it mean to say, okay, so my mom is now a 120-year-old digital avatar. How am I supposed to answer what would be in character for her?”
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