ProjectShamrock t1_issilrc wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:50 AM

This is less impressive than you think:

> HereAfter, whose work starts with subjects when they are still alive, asks them questions for hours—about everything from their earliest memories to their first date to what they believe will happen after they die.

This is just an evolution of you sitting down to record audio interviewing someone and asking them questions. All this does is allow you to ask questions and it will replay relevant segments of it and maybe be able to extrapolate a little bit based on AI. They're not recreating anything of deceased people, they're creating chatbots of currently living people that will be able to persist after the person is gone.

avatarname t1_itfte3f wrote on October 23, 2022 at 9:40 AM

I mean yeah, we are not living in sci-fi yet, but AI today can convincingly recreate voices of people and rearrange words in sentences etc. So indeed it kinda is a glorified chatbot, but I think the more complex chatbots become, the less distinguishable from the real thing they become. Just that I don't think it is possible to recreate a feel of a person from hours, even long hours, of conversations to record them, even if they took all their reddit/facebook/twitter/youtube posts and comments, it still would not be enough