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For a comedic version of this concept, check out the fake infomercial "Live Forever as You Are Now" (1)

Great example of the promise of virtual immorality done badly with bad software

alan resnick and wham city comedy make some absolutely brilliant content! thank you for sharing this, I forgot all about it.

This is also a sub-plot of the television series Caprica, where a researcher uses her daughter as the model for the first true AI in a robot cylon.

Caprica is actually a very good series, often forgotten in the shadow of Battlestar Galactica. But then it doesn't really feature cool spaceships. ;)

There's a black mirror episode based on this.

A similar idea moved a bit further is the theme of the film Transcendence

You should totally watch Source Code, it's a much deeper dive on this subject. Great movie.

Will do ;)