MMichael Boomer learned the worst news, namely that he was dying of colon cancer, and decided to spend his last days with his wife Anett talking "what (everything) will happen after death.” The nearness of the end brings us closer, while at the same time, we become more theologians than those who tell us about salvation on Sundays.
Anett explained that she will miss the long conversations with her 61-year-old husband, who was very well-read and more than willing to talk about various civilizations and cultures. This prompted him to, driven by love, immediately team up with his friend from the US, a certain by Robert LoCosac, CEO of the platform 'Eternal'. "Within just two months, they built - a comprehensive, interactive AI version of Boomer, also the first client."
The purpose of the platform 'Eternal' (in translation - eternal, but here it would be: artificially eternal) is to include the Boomer family in all the experiences of the prematurely deceased father and husband. This says that in a way, he has indeed become theirs - a private/family eternity always available since it is stored in the AI program, because the purpose of it all is that, literally, the bereaved can now talk to the AI version of their dead!
As we can read, it is therefore one of the first companies to occupy the growing area in AI technology related to grief. So: not only will the blind see and the lame walk (the messianism that is fulfilled in the Network) - by implanting a chip in the brain that is linked to the monitor - but also families with a loss will alleviate their grief if they subscribe to a wide range of possibilities of a company that joins the AI experiments and already makes our sorrows incomparably more bearable.
Developing chatbots also reaches the possibility - the work of the company ’Project December’ - to meet the user with the following offer: "Since he fills out the manual answering the key facts of the person and his characteristics - the client then pays only ten dollars and can practice a simulated text conversation." In other words: about a person we make - Sketch character, then we transfer it to the AI program, pay a negligible amount of money, and then chat with her, because something like that cannot happen to us in reality. With this technological innovation, singles in the virtual world cease to be so, on the contrary: they can chat with any person, it is enough just to answer a questionnaire, such as: hobby, profession, tolerant/intolerant, soler or team player, etc., then the program makes a complete personality character and the user further exercises correspondence with people which was denied to him for some reasons, as in Coffee machines tell "One Little Woman", which, if it was described in the questionnaire, would be able to chat with her, neither guilty nor obligated, by a colleague whom he irrationally and pathologically dislikes, feeling that "there is a sense of infinity in the conversation" (Borges).
In short: from the stored voices of the dead in the program with whom we can talk on all topics that we kept quiet/suppressed during his/her life, to, further, correspondence with those whom we secretly desire but remain out of our reach. AI and platforms like this bring a completely new type of socialization, but also one more thing: only after a loved one dies, we can ask him the real questions that really bothered us during his/her life - which is always the case - and enter into correspondence with a person whom we idealize for some reason, in which some detail opened up our phantasm, started us to 'load' into her everything that she is without her even being aware of it, etc.
However, the following problem appears: some would like to preserve their grief as a part of their intimacy, others, on the other hand, in the technological possibility that provides the opportunity to always talk to deceased loved ones, discover something very 'warm, above all humane, first of all, they recognize the efforts AI to be de-tabooed open to our sorrows and to understand it in a way that others don't want to".
A user of this platform, for sure X, says: "I don't have to go to the cemetery every weekend in order to talk to my wife about family problems or successes. Now, in order to 'consult' with him, I only need to start the program in his room in which his voice was recorded. Then we share everything, like before."
When it is Marcel Proust spoke for the first time on the phone with his more than beloved mother, after hanging up, he realized, not without great sadness, that she is now just an old woman who has nothing to do with the woman who, as a child, took him to bed early and protected him from terrible asthma attacks . This story reveals to us that, the voice always immediately gives a character, it is outlined as in a dream, while we listen to it, the proximity of the Other is unreal, it is the proximity of the spirit or what we meet in sight. (Reading Rolan Barta (the book - "Rolan Bart after Rolan Bart"), in the skin wrote a fragment immediately before: "The voice is always already the voice of the dead, the departed".)
However, what should be noted and emphasized here is: platforms like this that are entering increasingly advanced technology openAI, they do not comfort in a `transcendental' way by helping us to believe that the dead have really become eternal, on the contrary: these platforms do exactly the opposite, and that is why they are used more and more precisely by those who, hiding this feeling from themselves, live with the sadness that the dead are dead forever , "ashes returning to ashes."
All the sooner, now we could change the script of the film "Autumn in New York”, and to start the film with the scene with which it actually ends, when she dies while he is sitting in the park alone, and the birds suddenly fly away from the leafless tree. So, let's imagine a sad but not completely dejected and ontologically discouraged Will returns to the apartment, enters Charlotte's room, starts a program in which the conversation he had with her in her last days is memorized, and continues with questions, for example: - how does she feel in the other world, does she miss his jokes and good food since he is a culinary master, is it also up in the sky, like down in New York, autumn, a devitalized time of year, etc.?
Or, we can imagine someone who was rejected by a crush for the second time, persistent and wanting only her, starts chatting with her at home through the program, continuing the "conversation" that takes place in his fantasy, getting from "her" answers exactly as they were wants. Because doesn't psychoanalysis teach us to never love a person as he really is, but as he could be (and never becomes)? Thus, love is a potentiality that cannot become a reality.
The following lines with which we end have elements of the morbid, however, and all the more so before they must be stated - without, of course, any judgment whether all this is good or bad.
Scott (48 years old) lost three daughters, without revealing in what way, in order to continue living with this unbearable and unacceptable loss for consciousness, he says the following: "Aware that he does not communicate with his daughters, he explains that this somewhat helps in the grieving process .” Basically, we read how he uses the app three or four times a week, sometimes asking questions like: "How was school?", or - "Do you want to go get ice cream."
The truth of this life is that - we cannot forget the dead, but we also cannot bring them back.
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