The Unreal #TechVision It wasn’t really magic, of course. But when Joshua posted his experience on social media, people were divided. Many found it creepy Eight years prior to this conversation, Jessica died and wrong, and certainly not everyone who is grieving due to a rare liver disease, but her fiancé Joshua still will benefit from this sort of interaction – on the 123 missed her incredibly. So late one night in 2020, contrary, it might prevent some from healing and Joshua used Project December – an interface enabling moving forward. For Joshua, however, the realness of users to create bots powered by GPT-3, one of the it was what brought out the memories and unresolved most advanced AI models to generate human-like text grief, all the while still knowing it wasn’t really her. – to bring Jessica back to life…in a sense. By training the AI model with text she had once written and including This human-to-machine conversation was only a short description of the two of them, he created through text, but imagine what it might have been the bot that generated “Jessica’s” text above, word like if Jessica also had a digital face that moved and for word. At times, it sounded exactly like her, and at spoke just like she might have when alive. Imagine others, it did not – but even then, he could remember if she were so realistic that you couldn’t tell if it was 124 her more clearly. Joshua recounted that, though far really her on the other side of that screen – or if she from perfect, the chatbot reminded him of her spirit, had been computer-generated. and the experience allowed him to grieve in a way he hadn’t before. What then? Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 58