An incredible incident occurred in Britain. A dead woman spoke to hers funeral while at the same time she gave answers to questions about her life and was received by the surprised bereaved relatives and friends.
The conversation with the dead woman took place thanks to a new “smart” holographic video technology equipped with Artificial Intelligencewhich allows one to dialogue with a dead person.
The technology, developed by US company StoryFile based in Los Angeles, creates a digital hologram of the person before they die and uses a series of question-and-answer videos taken before they die about topics that could be of interest to those close to them. his people. Then, this tthe video footage is used to train an artificial intelligence system so that it can respond appropriately to questions that will be asked at the funeral.
The final product – which is compatible with virtual and augmented reality systems – is “loaded” onto StoryFile’s digital platform from where, via an internet connection, the “dialogue” (or rather the illusion of dialogue) takes place during the funeral.
In this way, according to the BBC, the Telegraph and the Daily Mail, an 87-year-old British woman – one of the world’s first users of the innovative technology – appeared as a talking hologram shortly after she was cremated. After giving a short speech about her life (including being a Holocaust survivor) and her spiritual views, she answered questions from family members who attended the funeral.
Smith had videotaped herself giving answers about six months before her death, spending several hours over the course of two days.
The hologram shocked those present
The technology, available in Britain from this week, was created by her son Dr Stephen Smith, co-founder and chief executive of StoryFile. Smith admitted that the hologram “shocked” those present and reported that his blessed mother answered their questions “with new details and honesty”among other things about her difficult childhood, her parents’ divorce, her political views, her predictions for the future of the world, etc.
The original idea for creating StoryLife in 2017 was to preserve in memory the stories of Holocaust survivors, as well as other historical figures, but along the way it was realized that it could be used more widely at funerals (and not only). Anyone who wants to can create a “story” on StoryFile and choose to answer questions before death about topics they think might be of interest to their friends and family. e.g. about his past love affairs or about his other secrets.
Contrary to manufactured videos (deepfake), this technology, as reported by the Athens News Agency, does not put irrelevant words in the mouth of the person. If the dead person’s hologram (i.e. the AI system) doesn’t have a relevant answer ready for a question, then the dead person “asks” the questioner to ask something else.
“She was present at her funeral”
Stephen Smith pointed out that thanks to the new technology his mother “was somehow present” at her funeral and pointed out that her words were really her own and not the creation of artificial intelligence.
Rolo Carpenter, creator of the CleverBot chatbot, confirmed that StoryFile’s intelligent system does not try to invent its own answers, it simply selects – depending on the post-mortem question – the appropriate video responses from a pre-defined stock in its database.
Smith foresees many other commercial uses for the new technology beyond talking to the dead, such as in customer service and sales. He stated that he envisions a world where people will videotape their lives on a continuous basis, so that later it appears that their 18-year-old self, their 50-year-old self, etc., are speaking.
A more advanced step would be to use artificial intelligence to create a fully synthetic (digital) “persona” of a dead person, which Smith considers impossible. “Everything about us is completely unique. There’s no way anyone can create a synthetic version of me, even if it looks like me,” he said, something Carpenter agreed with.
Source: News Beast
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