How Far Can We Get in Creating a Digital Replica of a Philosopher?

Can we build machines with which we can have interesting conversations? Observing the new optimism of AI regarding deep learning and new language models, we set ourselves an ambitious goal: We want to find out how far we can get in creating a digital replica of a philosopher. This project has two aims; one more technical, investigating of how the best model can be built. The other one, more philosophical, exploring the limitations and risks which accompany the creation of digital replicas. In cooperation with Daniel Dennett, we took his complete works to fine-tune a GPT-3. In this paper we share our first results with some piloting models and discuss legal and ethical questions about creating and interacting with digital replicas.