Afterlife Edition

I read an article this morning: "Suzanne Somers's Canadian husband made an 'AI twin' of the late actress":

Alan Hamel, a Canadian entertainer and longtime TV personality, recently told People magazine that he's created an "AI twin" of Hollywood star Suzanne Somers—his wife and partner of 55 years, who passed away in 2023 from breast cancer. The AI was trained on all 27 of Suzanne's books and hundreds of interviews, "so that she's really ready to be asked any question at all and be able to answer it, because the answer will be within her."

When Sheryl heard about it, she said: "I want one of these AIs with your personality."

There's just one problem: what would we use to train it? There isn't enough of my own material to feed the machine. With EA's permission, we could use the source code I've contributed to over the past 20 years—but I suspect the resulting AI would only speak in half-finished comments and deprecated functions.

Conversations with it would probably be even more frustrating than the real thing.

Still, it's nice to think someone might want to keep talking to me—even if someday it will just be a deadbot chatting with another deadbot.

I asked Gemini to generate an image with my photo as a computer screen