[ExI] Speaking with deceased companions

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Cc: BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
Subject: [ExI] Speaking with deceased companions

 

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 17:23, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:
>>… This is intriguing in itself: are they now claiming that deep fake AI can have real-time discussions with people and mimic a particular voice?  If so, my vision is complete: we can now have a robo-companion for the elderly, in which the patient can have discussions with a machine which uses the image and voice of a deceased companion.
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> spike
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>…This has been available since at least last year.
Only a short voice recording is required to enable any voice to be replicated.
Building an avatar companion is more complicated. You need to input a lot of their emails, chats, videos, discussions, papers, etc. to build a lifelike history of their personality.
Some people have done this already. …  BillK

 

 

 

Hey cool!  I already have a huge body of text, nearly thirty years of posting to Extr…  op…

 

Oh dear, I have problem on my hands, a big problem BillK.  

 

Fortunately it comes with a solution: I must outlive my bride.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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