Aug 9 2011: Personally, I doubt I'd want any sort of AI to update in my name in the event of my death. Unless it were to comment every month or so with something along the lines of "Yep, still dead" or "Man, I'm bored to death". I'd be content to leave any accounts as they are, just as anything else I would leave behind. One doesn't really need an AI to do that, though.
Either way, I suppose someone would be able to set up such an AI if there was enough content from the deceased that it could learn from. Almost a creepy thought.
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Either way, I suppose someone would be able to set up such an AI if there was enough content from the deceased that it could learn from. Almost a creepy thought.