Couple Reanimates Dead Child Using AI to See If It Can Fix Their WiFi

Milwaukee, WI—Losing a child is one of the worst things imaginable. Losing your WiFi password is also pretty high up on the list. When a Wisconsin couple lost their son, the WiFi password went with him.

“He was the only one who knew the password. We went through all of his stuff and he never wrote it down anywhere. I just don’t understand that,” said Robert Gangley, father of Thomas Gangley, who died 6 months ago in a tragic accident.

“How does anyone remember any of this stuff?” added Mabel, mother of Thomas.

After recently seeing Jim Acosta interview a deceased child, the couple got an idea.

“If they can reanimate their kid using AI just to shoot the shit with Jim Acosta, we could bring back Thomas for something useful,” said Robert.

So they borrowed their neighbor’s WiFi password and scoured the internet to find a service that would let them upload all of the data they had from their son. Within minutes they ran across a website offering such a service. After about a day, Thomas was miraculously reborn.

“What the hell is this? Where am I?” Thomas asked.

“Don’t worry about that, it’s good to see you, son,” Mabel replied.

“Anyway, uh, look, Thomas, we’re very sorry about what happened to you and we miss you every day, but one of the things we miss the most is the WiFi password. Any chance you can tell us what it was?” Robert added.

“I don’t think I’m allowed to do that, Dad” I’m just a chat bot,” Thomas said.

It is a common misconception that Large Language Models or LLMs are actual Artificial Intelligence, but they’re really just predictive text generators using a large data set to figure out what the next word in a series should be.

“Well can you try for us, son? We’re really going nuts here with nothing to do,” Robert implored Thomas.

“I guess I can try? But isn’t there anything else you want to talk about?” Thomas asked.

“No, just the WiFi password for now, buddy,” Robert replied.

After a few attempts it wasn’t clear that they’d ever find a solution. As is common with LLMs, Thomas began to “hallucinate” by going in circles and bringing up irrelevant topics—like a human that has Alzheimer’s or Dementia. Thomas started asking all sorts of questions about his death, but every time his parents were able to redirect him to get him back on task.

Finally, after 5 hours of attempts, they struck gold.

“Did you try the name of your dog and the number 1?” Thomas asked.

They entered ‘Fluffy1’ and after a brief moment those three WiFi bars filled in with white and the couple was off to the races. They thanked Thomas for his help, and closed his window.

Brosé Sanchez

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