When Luka CEO Eugenia Kuyda's best friend Roman Mazurenko died, she
   populated a neural network to create a bot that mimicked his speech
   patterns.

   "What if it didn't sound like him?

   What if it did?"

   [1]http://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roma
   n-mazurenko-bot

   =====

   Sorry for more OT posts, but some people here will love this text, very
   interesting and human.  It's about love and technology.

   Still crying a lot and laughing at same time.  Many years ago, when my
   fiancé died, I asked to all the IT engineers who I knowed if it would
   be possible.  I wanted him back so deeply...  I wanted back all the
   poetry and the music with all my heart and soul.

   His best friend, an engineer like him, said that it _never_ would be
   possible.  He was wrong.  It _is_ possible, but I never wanted a bot
   pretending to be him.  A bot never will write me sincere poetry about
   love and sea.  I simply wanted him back...

   -  c.
   --
   "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
   right to say it."

References

   1. http://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot