Ash vs. "Ash"

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly making it possible for new inventions and technologies to be created. For example, in Be Right Back, it’s an episode of the series Black Mirror, and it’s about this woman named Martha who is in a relationship with this guy named Ash. Ash dies in a car accident leaving Martha behind. There is this woman at Ash’s funeral that tells Martha about this program that makes it possible for her to communicate with Ash again. Martha doesn’t really want to use the program at first, but then she finds out that she is pregnant which giving her the last push to finally use the program.

This program uses things that are online to act like the person you want it to be. It uses videos, audios, social media, pictures and anything online, and the creates this “person”. Martha starts talking to "Ash" as if they were chatting. She tells “Ash” that she only wanted to tell him that she was pregnant; however, she continues talking to him after that. She then said that she wished that she could speak to him and heard his voice. “Ash” tells her that it is possible, so they start to speak on the phone. After that, Martha is always on her phone talking to “Ash”.  She goes to get an ultrasound to see how her baby is doing and to hear the heartbeat. Martha has her phone on so that “Ash” can also listen to the heartbeat. As she is leaving, she drops her phone and starts to freak out. She gets home and charges her phone. As soon as the phone is on, “Ash” calls her, and she tells it that she is sorry while crying. “Ash” then tells her that there is another option that makes is possible for them to continue talking about the interruption of the phone dying or getting broken.

This third option is getting a physical body of “Ash”. Martha gets this delivery with what looks like human flesh, but it is a synthetic muscle. She puts the body in the bath and puts electrolytes so it can start to form into Ash. Once the process is done, Martha has her “Ash” back again and can see and touch him. At first, it is a little hard for her to process that Ash is back and is in front of her, but then she starts to kiss him and saying how much she missed him. Martha then sleeps with “Ash”, but the next day she starts to feel weird. She notices that “Ash” is not like her real Ash. “Ash” doesn’t sleep or eats which makes her start to realize that this “Ash” will never be like the real thing. Martha’s sister comes to visit her, but “Ash” doesn’t know who she is making Martha snap. “Ash” is not saying or doing things that the real Ash would say and do. Martha then takes “Ash” to this cliff and tells him to jump off. “Ash” says that he will do it if she really wants him to, and this is not the reaction that Martha wants. Martha then tells him how the real Ash would act in that situation. Then “Ash” starts to act like that making Martha finally realized that this “Ash” is not the Ash she loves. Many years after that, Martha has her daughter who is now around ten and has “Ash” in her attic never getting rid of it.

This type of technology might be possible in the future. People being able to have people who they have lost at their house without worrying about not seeing that person again. Although it might be a good idea to have this technology, it is also a bad idea. How will people be able to let go if they have a replica of that person in their house? Yes, many would want to talk to or see that person one more time, but life does not work like that. There should be a limitation on how far this artificial intelligence should go. One of those limitations should be not bring death people back to life well make robots that look like death people.