2022-03-26
1 小时 35 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemita Basu.
If you're just joining us for the first time, welcome to the show.
Today we're bringing you one of our favorite episodes from our archives.
It's a story about connecting with the dead, having simulated conversations with people you've lost through the use of technology and artificial intelligence.
Conversations that might go something like, Jessica.
Oh, you must be awake.
That's cute.
Jessica, is it really you?
Of course it is me.
Who else could it be?
I am the girl that you are madly in love with.
Winky face.
How is it possible that you even have to ask?
You died.
What you just heard, those are voice actors reading a text chat between a man named Joshua Barbeau and a bot that he created modeled after his late fiance, Jessica.
See, Jessica died nearly a decade ago, and for Joshua, the loss was just enormous, unbearable.
He was still grieving when he came across a website in that allowed him to feel like he was communicating with Jessica again.
By creating a customized AI powered chatbot.
He could really take the conversation to the place that he wanted to take it, which was he wanted to say all kinds of things that he wished that he had said when Jessica was still alive.