The California-based company HereAfter offers a software that allows you to interact with your deceased loved ones. I mean, with a virtual replica of those people. Crazy, right?
Read the article 👉 Talk with your dead loved ones — through a chatbot 👈
This company uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence models to create a chatbot that answers written or voice conversations as a specific person.
The model uses large amounts of data about the person, their past life and how they communicate (voice recordings, interviews, chat conversations, videos, pictures, etc.), to create this virtual replica.
The MIT Technology Review team, specifically Charlotte Jee, tested talking to chatbots powered by her parents’ (still living) data, and she admitted to feeling comfortable in the conversations.
HereAfter founder James Vlahos acknowledged that he regularly chats with his father who passed away years ago. “It doesn’t replace him, but it gives us a really rich way to remember him” he commented.
How far AI can go is not new. We have already discussed it in previous posts such as the creation of the first judge made by AI.
But we ask ourselves… Does this use of AI make it easier to grieve after the death of a loved one or does it delay and aggravate the ability to cope with the loss?
What do you think? Tell us about it 👇
