[ExI] Speaking with deceased companions

[BillK]

On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 at 05:45, Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> The biggest problem I can see is that I speak differently to my spouse
> than to anyone else. If it used my emails to you folks, it would go
> right over her head. And that's not something I would ever tell her,
> of course. It's not that I lie to her, or anything like that, it's
> that I just talk DIFFERENTLY to her.
>
> Do you think AI could really parse that apart at this point? I mean I
> rarely email her, so how could it?
>
> -Kelly
> _______________________________________________


This is a problem for the current state of memorial avatars.
Without total mind uploading, (probably not possible after death), an
avatar will have to get complicated to allow for all aspects of a
personality. Different people will have different memories of a
person. Work colleagues, family members, golf club contacts, social
club contacts, etc. will all have experience with different aspects of
that personality.
If the avatar is intended to be used by just one person, then that
simplifies the construction. Only the knowledge common to both people
needs to be used for training the avatar.
Plus, of course, the general LLM training to enable conversation.

If more people will be chatting with the avatar, then more training
data, appropriate for each person, will be needed. Some method of
creating several sub-avatars and identifying which to use for each
conversation will be required. Confidentiality becomes important, as
some data known by one person might upset another person if divulged
during the conversation.

It gets complicated! The best solution is probably to just have
single-user avatars, trained on data available to that user.

BillK