L. Zoloth

Seeking the Witch of Endor: Ghostbots and the Presence of Absence in Jewish Thought

ABSTRACT:The longing to speak to the beloved beyond death is humanity’s oldest yearning. I describe a modern phenomenon, the ghostbot, an artificial intelligence reconstruction of a human person, “created” by using text and images left behind after a person has died. Often this data is generated by a willing participan...