If you think your dying thoughts will probably be, ‘but what about myInstagramaccount?’ then do we have some news for you.
Meta, the tech giant which also ownsFacebook, was granted a patent in December for an AI system that can simulate a user’s activity.
Thepatentgives two examples of when this could be useful: ‘When the user takes a long break or if the user is deceased.’
These immortal accounts could be able to respond to content posted by still-living users.
The patent, first reported byBusiness Insider, says the AI system is a large language model.
These neural networks learn skills, such as holding a conversation, by analysing vast amounts of text from across the internet.
In this case, the patent says the training data could be the user’s own account, such as posts, comments, likes, chats and even voice messages.
This allows the model to predict the next word in a sentence in much the same way as the user did, a technique called natural language processing.
And it couldeven let friends and family hear the voices of the dead, too, by cloning a person’s voice to simulate audio and video calls using deepfake technology.
Meta first filed the patent in November 2023 and will expire in 2043. Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s CTO, is listed as the primary author of the patent.
Source: Drudge Report
