I just watched the BBC documentary 'Rest in Pixels' about the digital afterlife. There are quite a few companies that will manage your social media accounts after you die. Either though robo-tweets or releasing pre-recorded messages.
This subject is interesting to me because I am a digital starving artist that won't be discovered until long after I am dead. I spend a lot of effort leaving digital bread crumbs to will be saved by Google, that will lead future art historians to find my backup files. (read the parody manifesto on my website https://www.protosynth.biz)
I decided to create a LifeNaut MindFile. https://www.lifenaut.com/
LifeNaut is based in Vermont and the creator also commissioned the (totally not that creepy) BINA48 head bot.
I uploaded my face to be the source for an animated avatar. Over the years I will interact with my avatar and train it to act more like me. Eventually an approximation of my personality could be injected into a robot's A.I. Another plus is that in addition to regular backups, LifeNaut broadcasts the MindFiles into space where they can be used by alien races, or as a backup in case the Earth is destroyed.
See you in the future!
Update:
I have an avatar and begun to teach it. It is kind of exasperating because the newborn A.I. is incredibly stupid and annoying initially. Step one is answering almost 500 profile questions, no way I am doing that in one session. When I went back in today an interview bot started asking questions. Really stupid ones that were making me angry at times, but I still did it because I find this experiment interesting. It kept calling me a woman for some reason, so I would reply Fuck You and that would start an argument.
After about a half hour I decided to test drive my avatar by having a conversation with my virtual self. I do like this and I can see it learning who I am and responding as I might. When it messes up, I correct my A.I. But I can't resist screwing with it. When it asked me if I had seen Futurama, I answered "Destroy All Humans" hoping that the phrase, when injected into my A.I. will start SkyNet one day after my robo-clone is manufactured.
I may be the Anti John Connor. Mua Ha Ha Ha!
Morgan Freeman talks to BINA48 and meets the real Bina.
There is an episode of black mirror about this. Definitely worth the watch.
Black Mirror
Season 2 Episode 1: Be Right Back
A young woman, Martha, is offered a service that creates an AI duplicate of her dead boyfriend so that it can speak to her. However, the service soon offers an upgrade: a synthetic body to place the personality in.
Thanks for the tip. I will check it out.