When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence • Discoverology

When Her Best Friend Died, She Rebuilt Him Using Artificial Intelligence

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It had been three months since Roman Mazurenko, Kuyda’s closest friend, had died. Kuyda had spent that time gathering up his old text messages, setting aside the ones that felt too personal, and feeding the rest into a neural network built by developers at her artificial intelligence startup.

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