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Dara Ladjevardian missed his grandfather, so he cloned him. The 27-year-old from Texas was in the midst of building his first start-up. It was hard, and he longed for the counsel of his family’s deceased patriarch, a successful industrialist who built two fortunes, the second of them in America after he lost the first in Iran in the 1979 revolution.
So his grandson took a 200-page memoir that Akbar, his grandfather, had produced and fed it into an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The result was a chatbot imbued with these experiences. “I was like, ‘It’d be great if I could talk to my grandpa and learn from him, ask him questions,” Ladjevardian said. “I created a clone of him using that book, and treated it
