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AI girlfriends, memories & recreations + Sam Altman testifies | E1743

This Week in Startups

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The Ethics of Communing With the Dead

I think there'll be a regular, I think this will be built into your iPhone eventually, where it will say you'll tell it, Hey, this person is deceased. It'll find all the videos of them and native in your phone, you'll be able to go have a conversation with them. And imagine you had like an Elon AI tool where you could just be like, hey, Elon, what is your design process thinking? That would be one of the most interesting use cases for generative AI. If it had that entire corpus of data with biographies and everything, it could be great. Instead of reading a biography, you could ask a custom question. You could talk to

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