CNN's John Sutter talks with a chatbot that pretended to be his dead wife. The bot, called jeska, would talk about her love of walking and listening to music. She also made mistakes like calling their daughter "our daughter" But she was faithful to real life when it came to forgetting people's names or who he was.
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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