2021/07/23

Jason Fagone Contemplates Love and Loss in the Age of AI

● 23/07/2021
“At first, he was impressed by the software’s ability to mimic the real Jessica Pereira. Within 15 minutes, he found himself confiding in the chatbot. After a few hours, he broke down in tears.”
– Chronicle staff writer Jason Fagone, contemplating “love and loss in the age of AI” in a (moving) recount of how one GPT-3 chatbot, created with Project December, helped writer Joshua Barbeau find closure eight years after the death of his fiancé
San Francisco Chronicle
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