{"id":162110,"date":"2023-04-13T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-data-scientist-cloned-his-best-friends-group-chat-using-ai"},"modified":"2023-04-13T14:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:24:31","slug":"a-data-scientist-cloned-his-best-friends-group-chat-using-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-data-scientist-cloned-his-best-friends-group-chat-using-ai","title":{"rendered":"A data scientist cloned his best friends\u2019 group chat using AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-data-scientist-cloned-his-best-friends-group-chat-using-ai3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As data scientist Izzy Miller puts it, the group chat is \u201ca hallowed thing\u201d in today\u2019s society. Whether located on iMessage, WhatsApp, or Discord, it\u2019s the place where you and your best friends hang out, shoot the shit, and share updates about life, both trivial and momentous. In a world where we are increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bowling_Alone\">bowling alone<\/a>, we can, at least, complain to the group chat about how much bowling these days sucks ass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy group chat is a lifeline and a comfort and a point of connection,\u201d Miller tells <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cAnd I just thought it would be hilarious and sort of sinister to replace it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As data scientist Izzy Miller puts it, the group chat is \u201ca hallowed thing\u201d in today\u2019s society. Whether located on iMessage, WhatsApp, or Discord, it\u2019s the place where you and your best friends hang out, shoot the shit, and share updates about life, both trivial and momentous. In a world where we are increasingly bowling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}