A Growing Number Of People Are Turning To AI To Talk To Their Dead Loved Ones, And Trying To Live Forever

Last year The WinePress reported how Amazon Alexa would allow users to upload the voices of deceased loved ones, so the AI could respond in that voice and carry on conversations as if it were actually them. This new upgrade was designed to give Alexa more “human traits,” because, “in these times of the ongoing pandemic when so many of us have lost someone we love,” Amazon’s chief Alexa AI scientist and Senior Vice President Rohit Prasad said last year.

Since then a rise in people around the world are using identical apps and devices in order to replicate talking to those they love. Last week The New York Times did a story on this steadily growing trend, in a piece titled, “Using artificial intelligence to talk to the dead.”