In her new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, Kurzweil describes how she and her father, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, harnessed the power of AI to speak with the grandfather she never knew.
, focuses on how she and her father Ray harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to connect with the grandfather she never knew.
Ray is known as the inventor of an early reading machine for the blind and a revolutionary line of electronic keyboards. Building a chatbot version of his father involved digitizing thousands of Fred Kurzweil's documents, including lecture notes, love letters, musical writings, and letters seeking employment.Marissa Leshnov for NPR
"In the case of Viennese and other types of Jews, documentation was how you saved your life," Amy said."Through waiting in lines to show somebody a paper that proved that they didn't have a dog, or they had these things in their bank account that they were going to forfeit, that was your ticket to leave this bureaucratic fascist regime.
"It's really just in the last year or so with generative models that suddenly we have the ability to have much more fluid, much more human-like chatbots," said James Vlahos, founder of HereAfter AI and a conversational AI specialist with the social robotics company Embodied."Now we can have much more intelligent conversations than we ever had before."Amy Kurzweil said the chatbot project and the book that came out of it underscored her somewhat positive feelings about AI.
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