Black Mirror is a satire. I thought we were all on the same page with this.
Mar The Independent report, Microsoft has granted a patent has used some technology to allow the company to use online (or even fictional) footprints, looking for content such as “images, voice data, social media posts [and] electronic messages ”, then build a chatbot out of it.
There are also provisions for people to be able to make a bot of themselves.
The patented technology would be able to create the bot out of an “existing or existing entity”. The latter is a problem in itself, because there are ten bad reasons for all the good things when it comes to imitating a conversation with someone who, as a result of being live, to make the speech for themselves.
And the first one is just … look, this kind of stuff has been and forever amazing fucked. Let the dead rest, and the living.