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When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him

By Casey Newton · TheVerge.com · October 2016
When her best friend died, she used artificial intelligence to keep talking to him
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"When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. “Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.” It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent..."

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