A New Microsoft Patent Strongly Resembles A ‘Black Mirror’ Episode, And People Can’t Stop Pointing It Out

A New Microsoft Patent Strongly Resembles A ‘Black Mirror’ Episode, And People Can’t Stop Pointing It Out

Uproxx - News·2021-01-23 07:01

In the Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back,” Hayley Atwell’s character communicates with her dead boyfriend through an AI program that used his social media profiles, texts, and videos to essentially resurrect him virtually. Like all things Black Mirror, it’s a cautionary, dystopian tale, which is why people are freaking out over news that Microsoft is developing a chatbot that will basically do everything the episode warned society about. Namely using technology to talk to the freaking dead. Via The Independent:

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