An older Korean man named Mr. Lee, dressed in a blazer and slacks, clutches the arms of his chair and leans toward his wife. “Sweetheart, it’s me,” he says. “It’s been a long time.”
“I never expected this would happen to me,” she replies through tears. “I’m so happy right now.”
Mr. Lee is dead. His widow is speaking to an A.I.-powered likeness of him projected onto a wall.
“Please, never forget that I’m always with you,” the projection says. “Stay healthy until we meet again.”
This conversation was filmed as part of a promotional campaign for Re;memory, an artificial intelligence tool created by the Korean start-up DeepBrain AI, which offers professional-grade studio and green-screen recording (as well as relatively inexpensive ways of self-recording) to create lifelike representations of the dead.
Read Full Article »