The Current | Some Canadians are using AI simulations to reconnect with their deceased loved ones 

Chris Zuger struggled to cope with his father's sudden death in 2022. He missed their phone calls and text message conversations, and the jokes and opinions they shared together.

So when the absence became too much to bear, Zuger turned to the artificial intelligence (AI) program ChatGPT to try, in some ways, to recreate those interactions.

"I had a trove of his texts, his speech patterns," he told The Current's Matt Galloway, from Ottawa. "Then I said, 'When I say hello, you respond back as this pattern' — and it did."

Zuger said the text conversation was brief, but it helped him appreciate his relationship with his father.

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