I must say I'm very intrigued by this idea, honestly not so much for playing against an AI simulacra of an old friend, but for training up AI to play games without the traditional method of "give them cheats to make them harder!"
So similar but not the same - I’ve been researching how to build my own chatgtp as a service - called something like ‘whenImGone’ - so a user can train a bot to talk like them, with a really sophisticated questionnaire you can pump it full of info so your family and friends can talk to it, at important moments, birthdays, anniversaries, to comfort them kind of like a game when your dead. Inspired by the black mirror episode - remember me. Want to team up?
I'm actually interested in other usages of such technology but this is interesting.
This is an interesting use of AI I hadn’t thought about before, but now I can see a number of use cases for technology like this. Can you share more technical details about your approach? (It’s cool if you can’t.)