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I have a friend who wrote and artificial intelligence web interface a few years back which I chatted to for a while before it became annoying. What fascinated me most about it was it learned things as it went along.

I flirted with the idea of forming an Internet based company and employing a programmer to provide people with an interactive communication portal they could use to talk to their friends after they had died.

A bit like visiting a virtual clairvoyant, except without the parlour games and with direct access to the thoughts of your dearly departed.

The ideal would be for the nearly departed to upload their consciousness to the web interface before they died, except we don’t have the technology to do this (yet).

The next best scenario would be for the AI system to learn the nearly departed’s character and to mimic their responses, after all we are creatures of habit.

A well trained system should be able to mimic most responses to questions fairly accurately with a little knowledge about the nearly departed.

Only what happens if someone were to die suddenly without training the system?

And would it not seem a little weird joining a new website to talk to someone dead?

The experience needs to be more seamless.

What if…

I employed a programmer to write a plug-in for Facebook!

It could learn the nearly departed’s online habits while they were using the Facebook system.

Facebook could boast ninety million active live users, and several million active dead ones!

In fact they could offer a life and death time subscription, you could still be receiving this blog in 2567…

And nearly departed or not, I could install the application today as an insurance policy against sudden death so that my friends and family could ask me what I wanted to do with my millions.

Wonder if that would hold up in a Court of law.

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

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