Chinese companies offer to 'resurrect' deceased loved ones with AI avatars

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Startups are catering to mourners who want a way to communicate with their lost loved ones — or at least digital likeness of them.

Sun Kai, the co-founder of Silicon Intelligence, speaks with an AI avatar of his late mother whenever he feels stressed at work.TAIPEI, Taiwan — Whenever stress at work builds, Chinese tech executive Sun Kai turns to his mother for support. Or rather, he talks with her digital avatar on a tablet device, rendered from the shoulders up“I do not treat as a kind of digital person.

“Whether she is alive or dead does not matter, because when I think of her, I can find her and talk to her,” says Sun of his late mother, Gong Hualing. “In a sense, she is alive. At least in my perception, she is alive,” says Sun.” as academics have termed them, raises questions without clear answers about the ethics of simulating human beings, dead or alive.

At Silicon Intelligence, a technician is preparing to film a person in the studio. The person will read a script and perform specific hand gestures as directed. This footage will be used to create an AI avatar.or likeness, both Super Brain and Silicon Intelligence require authorization from the person being digitally cloned, or authorization from family and proof of kin if the person is deceased.

Fu Shou Yuan International Group, a Chinese-listed company in Shanghai that maintains cemeteries and provides funeral services, instead bases its AI avatars primarily on the social media presence a person maintained in life. In the digital cemetery created by Fu Shou Yuan in Shanghai, a headstone features a QR code that visitors can scan to access information about the deceased and pay tribute online.

Most people who have decided to digitally clone their loved ones are quick to admit every person grieves differently.

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