Grieving boyfriend pays AI chatbot to bring girlfriend 'back from the dead...FREAKY shite!

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Grieving boyfriend, 33, pays AI chatbot to bring girlfriend 'back from the dead' by mimicking her text messages - eight years after she passed

Joshua Barbeau, 33, from Bradford in Canada, lost Jessica Pereira in 2012 Still grieving, Barbeau last year came across a website called Project December After paying $5 he used service to create bot named 'Jessica Courtney Pereira'

The software works by consuming vast amounts of human-created text, such as Reddit threads, to allow it to imitate human writing Barbeau inputted Pereira's old Facebook and text messages and provide some background information, allowing the software to mimic her messages

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For $5, he created an account and then tried to simulate Jessica. He gave the bot a name ‘JESSICA COURTNEY PEREIRA.’ He then uploaded some old Facebook posts and text messages into Project December.

The line on the computer read: ‘Human is typing as “Joshua”.’

The next line reads: ‘Human types first:’.

A second later, this line appears: ‘Jessica: Oh, you must be awake...that’s cute.’

‘Jessica… Is it really you?’ Joshua types.

‘Of course it is me! Who else could it be? :p I am the girl that you are madly in love with! ;)’

The next line reads: ‘How is it possible that you even have to ask?’

Joshua then replies: ‘You died.’

‘That doesn’t sound right,’ the bot replies. ‘...how can you talk to dead people?’

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