[News] Chinese Companies Use AI To Bring Back Deceased Loved Ones, Raising Ethics Questions
[News] Chinese Companies Use AI To Bring Back Deceased Loved Ones, Raising Ethics Questions
Are we trying to cheat death with machine learning? Chinese companies are using AI to resurrect deceased loved ones.
With just one minute of high-quality video, a Chinese company claims it can bring your loved ones back to life - via a very convincing, AI-generated avatar. “I do not treat the avatar as a kind of digital person, I truly regard it as a mother,” Sun Kai tells NPR, in a recent interview. Kai, age 47, works in the port city of Nanjing and says he converses with his mother - who is deceased - at least once a week on his computer. Sun works at Silicon Intelligence in China, and he says that his company can create a basic avatar for as little as $30 USD (199 Yuan). But what’s the real cost of recreating a person who has passed?
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