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Companies Want to Replicate Your Dead Loved Ones With Robot Clones

• motherboard.vice.com

The story is unsettling, but there's also something universal about his struggle to let go. Many grieving people feel an emotional connection to things that represent dead loved ones, such as headstones, urns and shrines, according to grief counselors.

In the future, people may take that phenomenon to stunning new heights: Artificial intelligence experts predict that humans will replace dead relatives with synthetic robot clones, complete with a digital copy of that person's brain.

"It's like when people stuff a pet cat or dog. We don't stuff humans but this is a way of 'stuffing' their information, their personality and mannerisms," said Bruce Duncan, managing director of Terasem Movement, a research foundation that aims to "transfer human consciousness to computers and robots."

The firm has already created thousands of highly detailed "mind clones" to log the memories, values and attitudes of specific people. Using the data, scientists created one of the world's most socially advanced robots, a replica of Terasem Movement founder Martine Rothblatt's wife, called Bina48, which sells for roughly $150,000.


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