{"id":73058,"date":"2017-10-06T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/would-you-talk-to-a-dead-friend-an-as-ai-memorial-chatbot-revealed"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:42:33","slug":"would-you-talk-to-a-dead-friend-an-as-ai-memorial-chatbot-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/would-you-talk-to-a-dead-friend-an-as-ai-memorial-chatbot-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Would YOU talk to a dead friend an as AI? \u2018Memorial\u2019 chatbot revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/would-you-talk-to-a-dead-friend-an-as-ai-memorial-chatbot-revealed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Throwback from 6 October 2016\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>According to Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of the AI startup Luka, memorial bots are \u2018the future.\u2019 The CEO recently unveiled the \u2018digital monument\u2019 to her deceased friend Roman Mazurenko, feeding thousands of text messages to a neural network to create a Luka chatbot in his image.<\/p>\n<p>In the App Store, Luka is described as \u2018a new messenger with AI-powered chatbots. They help you find GIFs and funny videos, make plans together, pick places to eat, play trivia games and have fun.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>But, that isn\u2019t all it can do.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3826208\/Would-resurrect-dead-friend-AI-Try-memorial-chatbot-app-talk-virtual-version-Prince.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3826208\/Would...rince.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwback from 6 October 2016\u2026 According to Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder of the AI startup Luka, memorial bots are \u2018the future.\u2019 The CEO recently unveiled the \u2018digital monument\u2019 to her deceased friend Roman Mazurenko, feeding thousands of text messages to a neural network to create a Luka chatbot in his image. In the App Store, Luka [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73058","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}