AI project that enables people to contact deceased experts

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of everyday life, enabling activities that were previously impossible with older technology. For example, people can now use AI to create animated videos and craft stories from old family photos.

According to a new report from The subway, Now it’s the turn of researchers and engineers to explore new ways to communicate with the dead using artificial intelligence. For Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT and longtime observer of the human relationship with technology, the impulse to communicate with the dead is deeply human. It runs through history, from seances and Ouija boards to today’s technological innovations, which are currently at the forefront of the latest advances in AI. Even Thomas Edison himself considered developing a “ghost phone.”

This quest for interconnectedness has just taken an interesting turn with Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement of Apple Intelligence. According to Turkle, AI will become more pervasive in everyday life much faster than social media, if not faster. Given the money at stake, she warns that these emotional risks could materialize even faster when it comes to the rapid integration and lure of new technologies, as she explores in her documentary Eternal You.

According to The subway, The documentary Eternal You brings viewers face to face with people like Christi Angel from New York, who used AI to chat with a long-dead friend named Cameroun. Angel found out that Cameroun had died due to the pandemic and wanted to reconnect with him through a service called Project December.

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