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?" http://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazure... ===== 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."