{"id":32450,"date":"2016-12-06T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T06:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:00:11","slug":"bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda","title":{"rendered":"Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another way to celebrate the life of someone who has passed away. A memorial bot is created by taking the messages sent by a deceased person and passing it through a machine learning model in order to make a bot that replicates the deceased person.<\/p>\n<p>Eugenia Kuyda is the CEO of Luka, a company that builds AI products. When her friend Roman Mazurenko suddenly died, she worked with her team to make a bot that replicates his speech patterns. In our interview, we discussed memorial bots, deep learning, and the product Luka is working on\u2013Replika, a personal AI friend for anyone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/12\/06\/bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda\/\">https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/12\/06\/bot-memorial-with-eugenia-kuyda\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another way to celebrate the life of someone who has passed away. A memorial bot is created by taking the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59547,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions\/59547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}