Posted 3/29/2024, 1:00:31 AM
Entrepreneur Creates 'Live Forever' AI Avatars to Preserve Personalities After Death
- Entrepreneur Artur Sychov created "live forever mode", an AI tool that creates avatars of people after they die so their personalities can live on virtually
- The avatars simulate the person's voice, mannerisms, and movements and can have conversations with relatives after the person dies
- It is part of Sychov's company Somnium Space, a virtual reality metaverse platform with over 300,000 users
- Some users want their avatars to outlive them so future generations can interact with them and know who they were
- There are concerns around data privacy, digital impersonation, and companies exploiting people's existential anxieties around death