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Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?

A Hacker News user asks whether current AI technology can create a human analogue by training an LLM on a specific person's data, enough to pass a personalized Turing test, citing potential products like memorial personalities for grieving relatives or re-personification of famous individuals, despite moral ambiguity.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 16, 2026

| |||||||||||| 2 points by | In Frederik Pohl's HeeChee series, a pivotal plot element was the idea of committing a human personality to an AI model. Are we there yet? What training data would be necessary or sufficient to cause an LLM to respond roughly as a human being? A particular human being, enough to pass something like the Is It Dad Turing test. There are potential products there, from hosting a memorial personality available to grieving relatives, to the re-personification of famous individuals. Yes, it is fairly morally ambiguous. But if there is money in it (agree or not) then it will be done. | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |

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