{"id":71007,"date":"2017-07-19T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T10:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:52","slug":"a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality","title":{"rendered":"A Son\u2019s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I am anxious to explain the idea to my parents. The purpose of the Dadbot, I tell them, would simply be to share my father\u2019s life story in a dynamic way. Given the limits of current technology and my own inexperience as a programmer, the bot will never be more than a shadow of my real dad. That said, I would want the bot to communicate in his distinctive manner and convey at least some sense of his personality. \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>For months, he recorded his dying father\u2019s life story. Then he used it to re-create his dad as an AI.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-fa...mortality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am anxious to explain the idea to my parents. The purpose of the Dadbot, I tell them, would simply be to share my father\u2019s life story in a dynamic way. Given the limits of current technology and my own inexperience as a programmer, the bot will never be more than a shadow of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71007","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71127,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71007\/revisions\/71127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}