Chatpots are personalities that you can type back and forth with. They use techniques of machine learning to manipulate human language. You give them a little prompt, like a line from a poem or a sentence from a novel, and at the flick of a switch, they will spit out text that often seems like a human rodet. This conversation is between a grief stricken joshua and jessica's ghost.
A love story between a person who's alive and a person who is dead, told by the San Francisco Chronicle's Jason Fagone.
Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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