Can an AI version of a fallen pet replace the original one today or not?

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5GT. D34N 5 Aug @ 4:58am

It's like this: an avid cat lover has just lost the dearest pet (as it passed away) but would an AI copy (a feline bot modeled after the dead cat only by appearance) really replace the original one or will people still consider that "fake" as it's only an automated replica lacking any attachment to the owner (which is something the biological pet has with a human owner).

Let's say you known the real cat (biological) but suddenly an AI generated imitation shows up that resembles the deceased one, do you consider that a total replacement of the real one that has just died? Even though the bot feline attempts its best on getting attached to the owner, would that alone alleviate their grief of losing their actual pet whom they got attached to?

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Foxbyte 5 Aug @ 5:07am

I don't think so no. At least, definitely not right now or even in the near future. Who knows, with how fast tech seems to keep advancing, exponentially, maybe at some point wayyyy long into the future, maybe that could be possible. That the AI generated one is near just as realistic and life like as the real thing.

I'd say, best to just get a new, real, cat or kitten and keep the good memories of the passed cat in your heart

eram 5 Aug @ 5:17am

how are you bringing it back from the dead?

Taxidermy the actual dead cat and stuff it with ai?
Augmented reality glasses and ai?
a computer screen and ai?

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DOOMGIRL69 5 Aug @ 5:19am

No same as how it cant replace a person, it may look like them, sound like them and even act like them. But its nothing compared to the real thing

eram 5 Aug @ 5:22am

Originally posted by DOOMGIRL69:
No same as how it cant replace a person, it may look like them, sound like them and even act like them. But its nothing compared to the real thing :bluerune::luv:

in 1997 someone i knew attached a taxidermied cat to a plinth that was connected to RC

So he could remote control a stuffed cat and drive it around the house. Had a pretty good personality not gonna lie.

DOOMGIRL69 5 Aug @ 5:30am

Originally posted by eram:
Originally posted by DOOMGIRL69:
No same as how it cant replace a person, it may look like them, sound like them and even act like them. But its nothing compared to the real thing
in 1997 someone i knew attached a taxidermied cat to a plinth that was connected to RC

So he could remote control a stuffed cat and drive it around the house. Had a pretty good personality not gonna lie.

The image that conjured in my head was horrifying lol

If it helps people then its fine ofc, but for me though i dont think it would tbh

isomorphic_projection 5 Aug @ 5:50am

( ( < < <2🤖1> > > ) ) 5 Aug @ 5:55am

dont people actually clone their pets...

Electric Cupcake 5 Aug @ 5:59am

That is absolutely grotesque.

Puggly the Grey 5 Aug @ 6:02am

No, dis would be an abomination, a complete and utter insult to le memory of one’s fur baby.

I loved my floof boy more den life itself, he was my best fren, my puppy joy, and functionally my child, and fir dos vury reasons, I will NOT parade some ghoulish AI imitation of him around, dat’s sick.

DoomsDay 5 Aug @ 6:03am

only mode way to find out,
not sure what AI you were referring to.
I hear they use AI to make famous actors reappear on TV, obviously its because the story needs him, and the incentive of profit gains.

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Utiviroo 5 Aug @ 6:44am

Everyone reacts to death a bit differently. Everyone has their own death ritual.

The people who take it to extremes like, preserving entire rooms or homes, exactly the way it was the day the person/pet died for decades is not healthy. Or hoarding lots of keepsakes. (A few are OK, to remind you, now and then, that stuff was real and you did not imagine it all).

Being frozen in time is wrong, emotionally speaking. Life is for living. It is almost a form of self perpetuating PTSD to do otherwise.

Forgetting things is actually good as it allows you to form new emotional bonds with something (animal/human) that is alive. When you are ready, be that two days or two years.

Go on a new journey, live life, doing otherwise suggests you have died too and the body is only carrying out the motions, that is why you are pretending the dead are still alive. A zombie.

A part of your would may have died, but it should not be the anchor that sinks the rest of you. Grow.

Offer declined on that basis.

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