How creepy! Microsoft has been granted a patent that will allow them to build chatbots based on the information of dead people.

The independent reports that the bot will be created from “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages”, and other information of deceased people. In theory, you could be talking to your loved one.

“Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of creating a conversational chat bot of a specific person,” the description of the chatbot tech read. “In aspects, social data (e.g., images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages, written letters, etc.) about the specific person may be accessed. The social data may be used to create or modify a special index in the theme of the specific person’s personality. The special index may be used to train a chat bot to converse in the personality of the specific person.”

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“The specific person may also correspond to oneself (e.g., the user creating/training the chatbot,” Microsoft adds.

The technology could also be used to create a chatbot of a fictional character or historical figure.