I Gave an AI a Vocabulary of Only Emoji — And It Started to Communicate
In AMC’s Pantheon, a scientist named David Kim is uploaded — his mind digitized, his body gone. His daughter discovers he’s still there, trapped inside a computer, when he starts sending her emoji through her phone. He can think in full sentences. He can remember. He can love. But the only channel he has to reach her is the emoji keyboard. I couldn’t stop thinking about that scene. So I built it....