A Little Tech Adventure!
Imagining a future where AI could create lifelike avatars of deceased loved ones—using their voices, memories, and evolving interactions—allowing people to converse with them and ease the pain of loss.
I recently woke up with the idea that it might not be impossible for any of us to call someone important to us who has passed away, whether spouse, child, parent or friend.
It doesn't seem that far out to imagine modern technology being able to construct a sort of avatar of our deceased loved one. Almost all of us have recorded tapes or videos of these people in our lives.
How difficult could it be, using computer technology or the new techniques of Artificial Intelligence, to create a sort of avatar of our loved one?
Using their actual voices, we could call them up and converse with them, not unlike how we talk (primitively) now with computerized voices on the phone.
However, AI would create an almost perfect simulation of our loved ones, using the exact voice we remember. The more conversations we have with these avatars, the more they would become like the people themselves. Our own memories would be picked up and stored by the avatars until they could converse with us almost as equals, having equal memories they learned from us. Having the memories of computers which forget nothing, our avatars would eventually exceed our own memories of our relationships.
How wonderful this would be to be able to call up any deceased loved one and converse with them as if they were still alive. Instead of needing psychological therapy to overcome our feelings of loss, we could virtually eliminate those feelings, knowing we could converse with our loved ones who have passed away with the same ease we always had and at anytime we wished.
Extending this into future hi-tech developments, we might one day allow this avatar to exist as a hologram, actually sharing our own space while we carried on our conversations. Almost a form of rebirth.
It's hard to believe that there aren't AI enthusiasts out there already attempting to do this. I can't believe this is an original idea of mine that no one else who is missing a late family member or friend hasn't had. So please take this and run with it AI enthusiasts!