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  1. www.bbc.com › news › business-68944898The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot - BBC

    May 15, 2024 · James' father John passed away in 2017, but not before James had turned what he'd recorded into an AI-powered chatbot that could answer questions about his dad's life - in his father's voice.

  2. www.bbc.co.uk › news › business-68944898The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot - BBC News

    May 15, 2024 · James' father John passed away in 2017, but not before James had turned what he'd recorded into an AI-powered chatbot that could answer questions about his dad's life - in his father's voice.

  3. www.wired.com › story › a-sons-race-to-give-hisA Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality

    Jul 18, 2017 · James Vlahos' father was dying, so he set out to save his dad's memories and code them into a 'Dadbot' that lives on his phone.

  4. www.cbc.ca › radio › tapestryFrom dad to Dadbot: one man's attempt to capture human ...

    • From Dad to Bot
    • The True Test
    • A Bot's Limits
    • The Hereafter

    Vlahos said that everyone in his family revered his father, John James Vlahos, a former sports announcer and lawyer who sang in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. The younger Vlahos had long intended to capture his father's stories in an oral history, but the stage IV lung cancer diagnosis provided an urgent incentive. He transcribed 203 pages of inte...

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    In autumn 2016, Vlahos succeeded. Though he said it wasn't finished, he presented Dadbot to his mother and father in the family dining room. His mother chatted with the bot on Vlahos' laptop, while his father sat nearby in a wheelchair. His mother was immediately impressed. Vlahos said she asked the Dadbot a few questions and looked up with surpris...

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    Not everyone supported Vlahos' creation of the Dadbot. Though he said his wife understood why he'd made it, she never wanted to use it. "She just found it depressing because it did sound a bit like my dad but then she was so painfully aware that it wasn't. So for her it was just poking a stick in the wound," said Vlahos. Chatbots today are more sop...

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    People quickly got in touch with Vlahos after he wrote about the Dadbot in Wired Magazine, asking if he could make them bots of their own. An Indian woman asked if he could make one of her deceased son. An Alaskan wanted to know if he could make one of himself for his children. "There's something there that I think the world wants even if the world...

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  5. www.youtube.com › watchHow a Man Turned His Dying Father Into AI | WIRED - YouTube

    James Vlahos' father was dying, so he set out to save his dad's memories and code them into a 'Dadbot' that lives on his phone.Still haven’t subscribed to WI...

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  6. www.youtube.com › watchTalk to Me | James Vlahos | Talks at Google - YouTube

    James Vlahos, veteran tech journalist, discusses his new book “Talk to Me”. The book covers the history of voice computing and the impact it has in modern so...

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  8. www.thedailybeast.com › chatbots-by-james-vlahosChatbots by James Vlahos and HereAfter AI Are Letting You ...

    Oct 31, 2022 · He passed away in February 2017, due to stage-4 lung cancer. The person Vlahos can chat with today on his phone isn’t his father exactly. It’s an AI chatbot that father and son...