There were too many comments left from people I didn’t know, all of whom proclaimed to love my Dad. Even before we met, I knew we would have a lot in common, but I didn’t think we’d both be thinking about death. I thought AI was the answer, but it proved to be a mirror. Months after my ChatGPT experiment, I realized that my struggle with the AI bot was not that it could not “be” my dad. Though I thought AI would be a fitting match for powerful emotions like sorrow and grief, which seem to transcend the physical world, it turns out AI’s power may be providing pathways to better understanding ourselves.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2024 19:28 UTC