What are Deadbots?

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About Deadbots

These are also known as griefbots, AI-enabled digital representations of departed loved ones.
Working: These chatbots simulate their language patterns and personality traits using their digital footprint, like emails, social media posts and even voice recordings, to create a conversational AI that reflects their personality.
Issues:
- Researchers have warned that these chatbots, while potentially comforting, could lead to psychological distress if not designed with safety in mind.
- Solutions that might be enthusiastically adopted in one cultural context could be completely dismissed in another.

What is Conversational AI?

It is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can simulate human conversation.
It is made possible by natural language processing (NLP), a field of AI that allows computers to understand and process human language and Google’s foundation models that power new generative AI capabilities.
It works by using a combination of natural language processing (NLP), foundation models, and machine learning (ML).
These AI systems are trained on large amounts of data, such as text and speech.
This data is used to teach the system how to understand and process human language. The system then uses this knowledge to interact with humans in a natural way. It’s constantly learning from its interactions and improving its response quality over time.

Q1: What is ChatGPT?

It is a type of artificial intelligence that can understand and generate natural language text. It is trained on large amounts of text data and uses an algorithm called a transformer to learn how to generate text that is similar to human conversation.

Source: Digitally immortalising departed loved ones comes with ethical concerns: Study calls for cautious design of AI ‘deadbots