Google to Develop Robot Clones of Dead Loved Ones, Celebrities

Artificial intelligence experts speculate that in the not-so-distant future people will replace dead relatives with cloned robots installed with downloaded variants of that person’s brain.

Vermont’s Tersem Movement Foundation, a research institute whose stated mission is to “transfer human consciousness to computers and robots,” is leading the charge to doppelganger replacements for the everyman.

Foundation director Bruce Duncan suggests that the concept is neither disturbing nor altogether unusual. “It’s like when people …read more