Monday 15 August 2022 05:10 PM New AI tool allows mourners to have conversations with the dead at their funeral trends now
The idea of conversing with mourners at your own funeral may sound like the plot from the latest episode of Black Mirror.
But it could become a reality, thanks to a Los Angeles-based startup, which has developed a 'holographic conversational vido experience'.
StoryFile creates a digital clone of the subject by using 20 synchronised cameras to record them answering a series of questions.
Experts then process the footage, tagging clips and using it to train an artificial intelligence (AI) that can provide responses to these questions in natural language.
The finished product is then uploaded to the StoryFile platform, which can be interacted with after the individual has passed away.
Those who attend their funeral are then able to speak with their loved one, as the technology creates the illusion of a real-time conversation.
The company worked with Star Trek's William Shatner last year to create a hologram of himself that he said will help 'preserve his memory and legacy for generations to come'.
StoryFile creates a digital clone of the subject by using 20 synchronised cameras to record them answering a series of questions
Experts then process the footage, tagging clips and using it to train an artificial intelligence (AI) that can provide responses to these questions in natural language
One of the first users of the technology was Marina Smith MBE - the mother of StoryFile's CEO Dr Stephen Smith - who died in June at the age of 87.
Dr Smith told The Telegraph: 'Mum answered questions from grieving relatives after they had watched her
