According to reports from the French news agency AFP, Super Brain, one of the artificial intelligence companies in China, has announced that an application called “ghost bot” has been implemented. In an app that will often be preferred by relatives of the deceased, artificial intelligence software will bring the voices and images of the deceased to their relatives.
Zhang Zewei, founder of Super Brain, one of the country’s artificial intelligence companies, said: “China is a global leader in artificial intelligence technology. There are many people in China who need these programs. This gives us an advantage.”
PRICE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED
The technology company announced that the price of the technology it developed is between 10 thousand and 20 thousand yuan (approximately 41 thousand 400 TL to 82 thousand 800 TL) and that any person’s avatar can be created within 20 days.
The company’s potential customers include relatives of deceased people, parents who can’t spend time with their children, and even people who get an avatar of their ex-lover made.
“Though I may never come to you again…”
Zhang stated that their work meets the emotional needs of many people, saying, “A digital version of someone can exist forever, even after their body disappears.”
Father Seakoo Wu, who lost his son Şunam at the age of 22, is one of those who worked with Super Brain to prepare the avatar.
When Seakoo visits his son’s grave, he pulls out his cell phone and listens to the Shunamo avatar speak. A robotic voice coming from the phone said to the father, “I know you suffer a lot every day and feel guilty and helpless because of me. Even though I will never be able to come to you again, my soul is still in this world.” , will accompany you throughout your life,” he said.
DEBATE ON WHETHER HE WILL BE TRUE TO HIS PERSONALITY
Sima Hupeng, founder of Silicon Intelligence, a China-based artificial intelligence technology company, claimed that avatars would “break new ground in the understanding of humanism”.
Tal Morse of the University of Bath in the United Kingdom pointed out that further research is needed into the psychological and ethical dimensions of such software.
“The key question here is how ‘loyal’ the spirit bots are to the personality they’re supposed to impersonate. What happens when they do things that ‘contaminate’ the memory of the person they’re supposed to represent?” said the academic. he said.