Researchers, Stop Being Creepy! New AI Lets You Converse with the Dead for £8

This new chatbot AI lets you converse with the dead for £8, check out now

A few hundred years ago, humans did not have pictures to remember the dead. Images and videos came much later. When someone dies, they leave behind a lifetime of memories for their loved ones to grieve. Thanks to AI, it doesn't have to be the same anymore, as it appears that one could still talk to the deceased. With the help of advanced artificial intelligence and expert psychological evaluation, it creates a digital clone that lets people speak to the dead with a video tool. And now, technology is promising more than just pictures or videos to remember the dead ones. It promises to help us interact with the dead long after they have passed away. At the same time, this new AI method of communicating with the dead is extremely impressive though bit creepy. Let's see how AI lets you converse with the dead.

Generative AI offers imaginative ways to remember people's lives by simulating their likeness. The story of how one man primed a GPT-3-powered chatbot with text messages from his dead fiancée so he could talk to her again went viral last year. A software mimic essentially helped Joshua Barbeau come to terms with the death of Jessica Pereira, a woman he met and fell in love with a decade ago. Universal Television reportedly purchased the exclusive rights to develop his story into a TV series.

AI Allows the Dead Woman to Talk

Marina Smith MBE passed away at 87 in the UK. At her funeral, but appeared as a hologram, seeming to come alive. She was able to talk to the guests and answered their questions at her own funeral with an AI-powered 'holographic' video tool. The AI matched the questions from guests and played the correct clip. Dr. Stephen Smith, the CEO, and co-founder of LA-based AI company StoryFile played his mother's videos on a screen at a funeral. StoryFile was originally intended to preserve the stories of Holocaust survivors and other historical figures. Unlike 'deepfake, the StoryFile system can make a subject say things they didn't mean to, this StoryFile artificial intelligence technology allows people to have real-time conversations. StoryFile isn't the only company working on bringing the dead back to life. Stephen says that the platform allows an individual to capture his legacy in a way that no one else has. She's not the only one to have been revived with the power of AI by StoryFile.  The former Screen Actors Guild president Ed Asner could answer questions from attendees at his own funeral earlier.

Just £8 to Create an AI Chatbot of a Dead Loved One

AI chatbots have already passed Alan Turing's Turing Test which means that the chatbots are capable of tricking humans into thinking the bot is a human. And with everyone in the modern world leaving behind floods of data, this freaky concept might actually become a reality, even by accident. Now, for just £8, you can pay to build a chatbot that mimics the behavior of someone you've lost. 'Project December' promises that its 'deep AI' can simulate a text-based conversation with 'anyone', "including someone who is no longer living".

The creator of Project December, Jason Rohrer, first built his chatbot-making software during the COVID-19 pandemic. After finding out that people were using it to recreate the dead, he decided to relaunch it as a 'special purpose service' for communicating with the deceased. "It's interesting to build something so cutting-edge, crazy, and science fiction-esque. It's fascinating for me as a creator," Rohrer told The Register. He added that he hopes users "get the help they were looking for out of this experience".

Users are asked to complete a form with information about their dead loved one, including their name, cause of death, personality traits, and any special information such as pets. One user of the service said he had used the service to speak to a number of dead people, from his grandma to Steve Jobs. He even tried to speak to his dead future self.