From the Bot of Her Heart

“Someday you will die, leaving behind a lifetime of text messages, posts, and other digital ephemera. For a while, your friends and family may put these digital traces out of their minds. But new services will arrive offering to transform them — possibly into something resembling Roman Mazurenko’s bot.” In The Verge, Casey Newton shares the story of Eugenia Kuyda’s bot: When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence.