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'Good Bot, Bad Bot': Episode III

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Show Notes

In the third episode of Endless Thread's series "Good Bot, Bad Bot," co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson explore a growing field of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text.

They talk with two individuals who used this tech in different ways, and discuss how these bots can help us improve our understanding of grief.

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