REDMOND, Washington —According to documents from the US Patent and Trademark Office, Microsoft been issued a sci-fi sounding patent for a chatbot -that could take on another person’s personality and likeness.
“The specific person may correspond to a past or present entity (or a version thereof), such as a friend, a relative, an acquaintance, a celebrity, a fictional character, a historical figure, a random entity, etc,” the patent reads.
Chatbox would be created through information that could easily be gathered on social media — images, voice data, behavioral information, social media posts, and text messages. It could even take on a physical presence, the documents show, which include plans for two and three dimensional recreations of people gathered through photos and videos of the individual.
