How to Build a Chatbot

Episode aired Jul 18, 2024
TV-MA
59m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

533

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Michael Emerson in How to Build a Chatbot (2024)

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Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller

David, Kristen and Ben investigate a company using AI to fake communication with the dead after Father Ignatius receives text messages from the deceased Monsignor Korecki. At DF, Sheryl conv... Read allDavid, Kristen and Ben investigate a company using AI to fake communication with the dead after Father Ignatius receives text messages from the deceased Monsignor Korecki. At DF, Sheryl convinces The Manager to take action against Leland.David, Kristen and Ben investigate a company using AI to fake communication with the dead after Father Ignatius receives text messages from the deceased Monsignor Korecki. At DF, Sheryl convinces The Manager to take action against Leland.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

533

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
The technology depicted in this episode--an AI-powered chatbot simulating the voice of a deceased loved one--does actually exist in commercially available form (a December 2023 New York Times article by Rebecca Carballo named several companies offering the service, including StoryFile and HereAfter AI). It was also the basis for Be Right Back (2013), an episode of the science-fiction-meets-technology series Black Mirror (2011) starring Hayley Atwell as a woman who, after her boyfriend played by Domhnall Gleeson dies unexpectedly, discovers that she can create an AI facsimile of him by uploading his social media postings, emails, and recordings.

Crazy credits
"It takes only 50 seconds to watch the intro. A haunting lasts a lifetime. Don't risk it." Appears before the Skip Intro option is shown.

Soundtracks
Don Giovanni, K. 527: Act I: Ah fuggi il traditor
performed by Michael Halász & Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia

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Featured review

7/10

At last signs of life

This probably won't be the highest rated episode ever but for me it's finally a sign that Evil hadn't forgotten its story arch built over 3 1/2 seasons

Season 4 has been manly Scooby-Do esqe episodes looking at mysteries but only skirting around what had come before Then finally the writers have remembered that there's been a lot of time invested by regular viewers of this show , delving into some light and more often dark matters that haven't been addressed for a long while

Nice to see (if only in flash back) that the previous sins of the investigation team haven't been for nothing !

The story line itself about an evil chatbot is just a standard type for this show and nothing really special and hopefully the money saved on these similar episodes can be blown on the bigger effects needed for the grander story lines

Back on track and hopefully on the path to a grandstand finale for season 4.