Oddbean new post about login | logout This happened much sooner than I expected and wrote about. Now all you need is a digital representation of the person and you can essentially interact with dumb versions of anyone at any time. Why do I get a bad feeling about this .. black mirror? https://www.withdelphi.com/
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May I have your attention please? May I have your attention please? Will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? I repeat will, The Real Slim Shady please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here
I fully expect, in short order, "Digital Ghosts" as a legit, real funeral service. Take the deceased's writing and digital artifacts. Train a gpt4-like LLM on them with the instructions "You are a digital representation of $PERSON. Answer questions and conversation prompts to help survivors get closure" Part of the memorial, like a tombstone, would be a Jor-El-like recording data crystal (probably a USB stick or SD card with the weightings as a checkpoint file) that family could use to talk with the departed's simulacra. They won't need the full Black Mirror treatment of VR, or a robot body. Folks would pay to have a chat conversation with the departed, or a close enough facsimile.
Need an open version
It's hilarious how hard they are jumping the gun on this. The technology is nowhere near adequate to be anything like a copy. The privacy implications are pretty incredible too. The LLMs are actually a variant of data compression, similar to how MP3 and MP4 compress complex waveforms, these do a similar thing to language. They are not effective at either, however. No clone of anyone is ever going to be able to copy the creativity, it's just endless repetition. Also, if you can't tell when text is AI generated, you probably would be a suitable candidate for being cloned, because your content will not be creative.
