Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead


At a cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone and plays a recording of his son. They are words that the late student never spoke, but brought into being with artificial intelligence. Stricken by grief, Wu and his wife have joined a growing number of Chinese turning to AI technology to create lifelike avatars of those they have lost.
Video by AFP

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