For most of human history, death meant silence. Memories survived in stories, photographs, or fading letters. A person’s voice, humour, and habits slowly dissolved into the past. But technology may be changing that. Today, artificial intelligence is beginning to create something strange and unsettling: digital versions of people that can continue speaking, answering questions, and …
Fun fact: In 1966, a simple chatbot named ELIZA fooled people into thinking it understood them—just by rephrasing their words into questions. That was nearly 60 years ago, yet here we are in 2025 still asking: Do machines really “understand”? The Turing Test and Its Successors: Can Machines Really ‘Understand’? remains one of the most …