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The technology is reminiscent of a fictional application in the dystopian television series “Black Mirror” that allowed a character to continue chatting with her boyfriend after he died in an accident, by extracting information from his social networks.
Do you want to talk about music with David Bowie? Or get some words of wisdom from your late grandmother? In theory, this tool would make it possible. But don’t get too excited or too scared – the company does not plan to turn the technology into a real product.
This is how technology would work if it were embedded in a product. Based on the patent information, the tool would select “social data” such as images, social media posts, messages, voice data and written letters from the chosen person. That data would be used to train a chatbot to “converse and interact in the personality of the specific person.” It could also rely on external data sources, in case the user asked the bot a question that couldn’t be answered based on the person’s social data.
“Discussing the personality of a specific person may include determining and / or using the specific person’s conversational attributes, such as style, diction, tone, voice, intention, length and complexity of the sentence / dialogue, theme and consistency”, as well such as using behavioral attributes such as interests and opinions and demographic information such as age, gender and profession, the patent states.
In some cases, the tool could even be used to apply facial and voice recognition algorithms to recordings, images and videos to create a voice and a 2D or 3D model of the person to enhance the chatbot.
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