Claim: A patent granted to Microsoft describes a chatbot that enables users to talk to a specific person, alive or dead, based on data gathered from the person's social media, messages, voice recordings, images, written letters, and more.
Fact-check: Did Microsoft Patent a Chatbot That Lets Users Talk to the Dead?
Verdict: mostly true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Nur Ibrahim
Date published: 2021-01-27T14:39:38