Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ray-kurzweil-on-bringing-back-the-dead Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Thursday’s outtake with Mr. Immortality: does Kurzweil believe that an avatar of his dead father — created with artificial intelligence and a lifetime’s worth of data and mementos — is, well, his actual father, the guy who died when Ray was 22? We asked him how that quest influenced his goal of “immortality today.”