Project december aims to explore what it's like to be an alexa or cere. The chatbot can perform feats of analysis that are well beyond any human. It is also able to get emotion from its environment, rather than being cold and calculating as in sci-fi movies.
A love story between a person who's alive and a person who is dead, told by the San Francisco Chronicle's Jason Fagone.
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