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Using AI, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil connects with deceased grandfather in 'Artificial'

Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil's new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, focuses on how she and her father Ray harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to connect with the grandfather she never knew. Marissa Leshnov for NPR hide caption

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Using AI, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil connects with deceased grandfather in 'Artificial'

In her new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, Kurzweil describes how she and her father, famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, harnessed the power of AI to speak with the grandfather she never knew.

Using AI, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil connects with deceased grandfather in 'Artificial'

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Embracing Your Inner Robot: A Singular Vision Of The Future

"Child-robot with Biomimetic Body" (or CB2) at Osaka University in Japan in 2009, where the android was slowly developing social skills by interacting with humans and watching their facial expressions, mimicking a mother-baby relationship. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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13.7: Cosmos And Culture

Embracing Your Inner Robot: A Singular Vision Of The Future

Human-machine integration looms on the horizon, with a promise to redefine who we are as people. Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is an apostle of the coming Singularity, a time when it is envisioned that technology will advance to the point that life is redefined as something other than what we know and experience today.

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