We all know the
immense pain of losing someone close to our heart to death. When the
dead person also remains our Facebook friend, its hard to admit that
they won’t replay back to them anymore. What if people could chat
with the dead person on his/her “Remembering” page to better know
about their values & interests? It might sound fancy, but
technological revolutions enable us to make fictions into reality.
The idea of “Virtual
Self” isn’t very new, but the implementation would be
significant. “Virtual Self” is a Deep Learning based technology
which can replicate someones reply if trained on his/her chat history
on social medias, specially Facebook. We have created a Character
level language model with deep neural network which could be trained
with anyones Facebook data, specifically chat history. After some
parametric optimization, the language model works pretty well
creating “reply message” to user queries by itself. The “Virtual
Self” model could be further integrated as a Messenger BOT and
deployed to remote server for convenient access.
Our plan is to
integrate the technology with the core Facebook service so that if
someone wishes to be available for chat after passing away, he/she
might subscribe to the feature. After his/her death, when FB converts
his profile to “Remembering” page, their chat history could be
accessed anonymously to create his/her “Virtual Self” model and
people could chat with the person’s model on his/her page. It
would ease some pain for his/her closest ones to see the person is
replying back to them on the same tone and attitude as they’ve seen
bringing the opinions and values of the departed soul for social
goods.
The page is
currently serving as a dummy “Remembering” page for my own
“Virtual Self” model trained on my own FB chat history. Test
now!!
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