How artificial intelligence resurrects the dead

2024-01-26T07:28:11.039Z

Highlights: AI made short work of the ultimate challenge: generating digital twins of the deceased, from de Gaulle to little Grégory. Enough to create a new economy of the afterlife, disrupting our relationship with death and our mourning process. The chat, broadcast at the end of August 2023, lasted several days. It was also possible to speak with clones of Jacques Chirac or Emmanuel Macron. The video hyperfaking ( deepfake ) with a clearly parodic aim will have required barely “10 to 15 seconds” of samples (sounds and images). And 150 euros per day for “combined use’

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