...After Artur Sychov, CEO of virtual reality developer Somnium Space, lost his father to cancer several years ago, he began exploring ways to preserve someone's personality even after death. The result is Somnium Space's upcoming "Live Forever" mode, which would allow users to be "reborn" as digital avatars mimicking their appearance and voice, and even their personality.
To achieve that goal, the company would get members' permission to record massive amounts of their personal data -- including conversations, movements and facial expressions.
"If I die and I have this data collected ... my kids, they can come in and they can have a conversation with my avatar, with my movements, with my voice," Sychov told Vice. "You will meet the person. And you would, maybe for the first 10 minutes while talking to that person, you would not know that it's actually AI. That's the goal." ...
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