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Love, grief, and an AI chatbot

9/29/2024 • 45 min

Joshua created an AI simulation of his deceased fiancée to help him deal with his loss. When gaming enthusiast Joshua Barbeau met Jessica, he knew he had found his soulmate. But his happiness didn't last. Jessica died from a rare health condition aged just 23, leaving Joshua struggling to cope with his grief, and his life. Eight years later, in 2020, while playi… Play episode

A love story and a battle cry in the Ecuadorian rainforest
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 2
The boy who hid from Nazis in the woods, part 1
Never ever give up: how Diana Nyad swam from Cuba to Florida
The hungry boy who devoted his life to muscle
Buddhist chants and Ibiza trance: A Spanish boy’s odyssey
The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 2
The Lost Boy: A never-ending journey, part 1
Britain’s infected blood scandal, my quest for the truth
The family hiding in the bush after leaking Russian secrets
'It's much easier for them to create a spy than catch a spy'
Dead Man Walking: The US nun who took on the death penalty
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 2
My father Faiz: Pakistan’s revolutionary poet, part 1
The man who finds water in the desert
Kill or be killed: a climber’s dilemma, part 2
Kill or be killed: A climber’s dilemma, part 1
The Hiroshima survivor who's still shouting for peace
Lost in lion country and saved by Spam
Painting, prison and two decades in Guantanamo
How I convinced police my dad was a murderer
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 2
Balochistan’s mystery benjo man, part 1
Exposing Silicon Valley's multimillion dollar fraud
My grandmother walked the rabbit-proof fence
How to talk to guerillas
Behind the locked door
I cycled across Africa for a place at my dream university
Going cold turkey in a Bangkok prison
The Pacific odyssey of a runaway rebel
Fugees Family: the football team who became my life
My dad was Britain's 'most wanted'
Trapped in an icy hell: my 72 day mountain escape
A Libyan kidnapping and the words that brought us together
Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star
Searching for the last man in the forest
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 2
Hunting for icons in the underworld, part 1
Love in the time of revolution, part 2
Love in the time of revolution, part 1
An author, his cellmate, and a new beginning
Scams and poetry in Moscow’s underbelly
Introducing Amazing Sport Stories
Unmasking my best friend
Becoming Gamal, part 2: Behind the badge
Becoming Gamal, part 1: Magic and misadventure
The fisherman and the 'spy whale'
Brazil's loneliest fan and his footballing fairytale
Love, Loss and 'Project 22'

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