What are Deadbots?

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