Augmented eternity: scientists aim to let us speak from beyond the grave

Advances in artificial intelligence could give us digital immortality, distilling a lifetime’s worth of online presence into a deathless version of ourselvesWould you like a version of yourself to live on after death? A radical new concept called “augmented eternity” could make that fantasy a reality, creating a posthumous impression of our knowledge, opinions and even parts of our personality in digital form.Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Ryerson University in Toronto be