Can a machine accumulate enough information about your patterns of communication to create an effective digital doppelgänger? Could we use the data left behind on Google’s servers and our own hard disks to effectively replace ourselves with an artificial intelligence born and bred of our online conversations and quirks? What might it be like to have a conversation with a past representation of ourselves, what would a hypothetical exchange between two digitally-reconstructed individuals look like?

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The goal was to build an autonomous chat bot that would draw from the content of our logs to construct an infinite stream of back-and-forth conversation between our younger selves. Ideally, these conversations should be reasonably cogent and reflect whatever personality / themes we left behind in our logs.