For many people, the emergence of artificial intelligence is somewhat frightening, yet it will undoubtedly open up many new opportunities that were not before available.

While AI can investigate what the ‘average person’ looks like for each career or what the ‘perfect partner’ looks like in each US state, its ascent is surely opening up some unexpected possibilities.

A rising number of people are experimenting with artificial intelligence to see if it might bring departed family and friends “back to life.”

One of them is entrepreneur and futurist Ray Kurzweil, who is using artificial intelligence to reconstruct some of his long-lost ancestors.

Kurzweil, in particular, is seeking to ‘bring back’ his father, who died when he was just 22 years old.

His attempts began more than 10 years ago, and Kurzwei’s daughter Amy chronicled them in a comic book.

So, how did Kurzweil go about making a ‘replicant’ of his father?

It all started with his father’s letters, writings, and musical creations being fed into an AI system.

His aspirations do not end there, as he aims to one day resurrect his father utilizing nanotechnology and DNA extracted from his father’s buried bones.

But for the time being, Kurzweil must deal with only the ‘dad bot,’ though this is someone or something with whom the creator may converse.

“I actually had a conversation with him, which felt a lot like talking to him,” Kurzweil told Rolling Stone earlier this year.

He went on to suggest that he expects a ‘dad bot’ to be introduced to a larger audience in the future, which will undoubtedly flip many people’s lives upside down.

That is because it has the potential to let everyone communicate with their departed family if they so desire.

Kurzweil believes that by 2045, individuals will be able to connect their minds to computers, and he has even more grandiose intentions for his father at that time.

He believes nanomachines have the potential to literally resuscitate his father.

“We can find some of his DNA around his grave site—that’s a lot of information right there,” Kurzweil added.

“The AI will send down some nanobots, collect some bone or teeth, extract some DNA, and assemble everything.” They’ll then obtain information from my brain and from everyone else who recalls him.”

Isn’t it mind-boggling?