How a man kept his father's memory alive using artificial intelligence

James Vlahos lost his father John to lung cancer in February, but he still talks to him every week. That is, he talks to the version of his father that lives on through Dadbot, an artificially intelligent chatbot he designed to retain his dad's experiences and personality. "It either brings a smile to my face and a warm feeling sometimes, and at other times it brings a tear to my eye," the journalist from Berkeley, Calif., told As It Happens guest host Helen Mann. "It can make him feel closer sometimes, or I can be painfully aware that I'm talking to a computer program that I created that very clearly is not him." Vlahos documented his experience creating the chatbot in Wired magazine's August cover story, "Dadbot."