Kiev. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – January 21, 2021 \u2013 Technology<\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence is being introduced into the field of funeral services<\/a> and, if one of Microsoft’s patents is implemented, will allow the living to chat with the deceased person’s bot. A patent for creating a chatbot that recreates the identity of a deceased person was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office at the end of 2020 to Microsoft. As a result, relatives will be able to “communicate<\/a>” with the deceased’s virtual bot.<\/p>\n The idea of creating a virtual image of any person based on the available open data from social networks (photos, likes, information about a person’s hobbies, data on purchases and work) was voiced in the spring of last year by a scientist from the Department of Innovation at the University of Arizona, Fahim<\/a> Hussein. All the data necessary to create a virtual avatar can be obtained from the Internet even without obtaining the user’s consent.<\/p>\n Microsoft developers took a similar approach, expanding the data range by obtaining information about a person’s email. Artificial Intelligence creates the basis for a chatbot<\/a> based on a comprehensive analysis of a person’s personality. As a result, the resulting bot can conduct a dialogue imitating the behavior of a real person. For greater realism, it is possible to create a three-dimensional model of a person or place a photo on an avatar.<\/p>\n Thus, Microsoft will allow introducing new technologies in the market of funeral services, providing the relatives<\/a> of the deceased with the opportunity to preserve his memory using holographic images and communication with a chatbot.<\/p>\n