Resolves YES as soon as all the following are true about a commercial service:
I can pay money to upload a bunch of data (e.g. audio recordings, text, video), which is then used as context to simulate a person.
The service is marketed specifically as simulating a deceased loved one (or this is presented as a use case of the service in at least one of their official marketing materials).
I can talk to the person via voice, with the other person's voice being reconstructed from the uploaded audio/video information (if provided)
The simulated person will retain new memories based on our conversations
I'm not actually interested in such a service, but it struck me as something that has high chance of happening soon and that not many people are talking about
This seems to be the way replika.ai came to be (but it's not their current product):
Eugenia Kuyda established Replika while working at Luka, a tech company she had co-founded at the startup accelerator Y Combinator around 2012.[3][4] Luka's primary product was a chatbot that made restaurant recommendations.[3] After a friend of hers died in 2015, she converted that person's text messages into a chatbot.[5] That chatbot helped her remember the conversations that they had together, and eventually became Replika.[3]