Artificial Intelligence startups are now allowing relatives to converse with their deceased loved ones.
According to the Tech Times, numerous startups and tech companies now volunteer their skills to develop AI copies of loved ones who have died, they even allow the family to participate in the process.
There was a group of volunteers, who recreated the voice and appearance of a deceased mother for her adult and teenage daughters using artificial intelligence.
The AI volunteers wrote a screenplay which allowed the daughters to see and hear their mother’s response to their letter.
The deceased mother’s voice was recreated by an associate dean of education at the engineering faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor Lee Tan’s startup, Voofy AI, while by entrepreneur Tom Tong Kwun-wah designed her facial expressions.
Tong noted that as most of the software is made with English speakers in mind it was difficult to generate lip movement that accurately matched Cantonese pronunciations.
With the use of booming technology now there are multiple platforms that integrate virtual reality with AI to replicate and create avatars of loved ones.
As per The Guardian report, the estimated market size for ‘digital humans’ in China, which was worth 12bn yuan in 2022 is expected to quadruple by 2025.
