{"slug": "ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai", "title": "Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nIn Frederik Pohl's HeeChee series, a pivotal plot element was the idea of committing a human personality to an AI model.\nAre 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.\nThere are potential products there, from hosting a memorial personality available to grieving relatives, to the re-personification of famous individuals.\nYes, it is fairly morally ambiguous. But if there is money in it (agree or not) then it will be done. | |||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936790", "published_at": "2026-07-16 16:35:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 16:55:24.848180+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-ethics", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Frederik Pohl", "HeeChee"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-are-we-there-yet-can-i-create-a-human-analogue-using-ai.jsonld"}}