Reflections on a Digital Recreation

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The speaker reflects on their experience with a digital recreation of their late father, discussing their work in the tech industry and their encounter with Project December. They explore the idea of creating a digital replica of their deceased dad and share a conversation with the digital replica.

As life moves progressively online, it is becoming increasingly possible to keep people alive in the digital sense. Tech companies are starting to use AI to simulate the personalities of the dead from the data they’ve left behind. The Economist’s science correspondent, Abby Bertics, wanted to figure out how close this possible future is and just what it would look like to conjure a digital ghost of her own.

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