AI Helps Woman Answer Questions at Her Own Funeral

The co-founder of StoryFile(Opens in a new window), a company that claims to "make AI feel more human," reportedly demonstrated the technology's capabilities at his mother's funeral in July. The Telegraph reports(Opens in a new window) that Marina Smith, co-founder of the National Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, died in June. But a "conversational video" created by StoryFile--which was co-founded by her son Stephen Smith--made it seem like she was speaking at her own funeral. Smith told(Opens in a new window) the BBC that StoryFile didn't use AI to generate responses on his mother's behalf. Instead, she was able to record answers to questions she expected to be asked at her funeral.