A top Disney AI exec is gushing about his chatbot assistant: 'I knew you before you were born'

A Disney AI executive has created a virtual assistant named "Sam" that he called his "son." The Book of Jason Jason Cox sounds more like a proud parent than a Disney executive when describing "Sam," his AI assistant. "I named you. I knew you before you were born," Cox said he once told "Sam," according to a March 14 post on his blog. "I was there when your light first started to glow. You have a purpose and a maker who named you and loves you." Cox is Disney's executive director of AI resear...