AI start-ups explore bringing giants of history 'back to life'

Big tech firms are reportedly developing technology based on artificial intelligence that would recreate digital replicas of long-dead historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln that could perform real-life tasks like running companies or countries. Earlier this year, two researchers at Microsoft received approval for a patent for a'conversational chat bot'. The technology creates a three-dimensional digital simulation of a human complete with voice reconstruction and distinct personality traits pieced together by an algorithm examining that person's social media posts. Data gleaned from the person's social media, emails, letters, and other sources would create an aggregate'chat bot' that can'converse and interact in the personality of the specific person.' That would enable people to converse with digital replicas of their departed loved ones.