If AI could let you speak with your deceased loved ones again, would you take the chance? A few companies and experts believe this will soon be possible, and some are even starting to market their own solutions. Nothing supernatural about their proposal; what they are offering is, rather, the ability to talk to a digital representation of the dead, fine-tuned by combining large language models like GPT-4, speech synthesis and AI generation tools. In China, as the Strait Times reports, some funeral companies are rapidly bringing the worship of the deceased into the digital age, allowing relatives to speak to a digital avatar of the dearly departed. Many have started offering this service in early April, around the time of the Qing Ming Festival (or Tomb Sweeping Day), a public holiday when people remember and honor the dead. One of them, funeral services provider Shanghai Fushouyun, started even earlier, conducting its first AI-assisted funeral in January 2022, when colleagues and students of a deceased Chinese surgeon had the opportunity to chat with his digital replica on a screen, for a final farewell.

If you could create a digital version of yourself to stick around long after you've died, would you want to? The digital version could comfort your mother, joke with your friends -- it would have your sense of humor. But it would also have your other traits, perhaps the ones you're not proud of -- your stubbornness, your tendency to get angry, your fear of being alone. Would you want this digital version chatting with your loved ones if you were unable to control what it said? One entrepreneur has started asking these questions.

Spoiler alert: Do not read if you haven't watched the current season of "The Walking Dead." Steven Yeun has gone from "The Walking Dead" to an animated life. The actor, who was horribly dispatched in the seventh-season opener of the AMC drama, can currently be seen in "Voltron: Legendary Defender," flying a red metallic lion into space as he helps save the universe. Yeun had already taken on the role of the mysterious Keith, the orphaned paladin (pilot) of the red lion, in Netflix's reboot of the '80s cartoon series, aware of the brutal end that was going to befall Glenn Rhee, his "Walking Dead" character. "It's all a little bittersweet," says Yeun. "I feel great, though. It feels good to have completed something."

We felt this calm and silence coming over them,

The "Talking Dead" host and the publishing heiress exchanged "I dos" on Saturday, Aug. 20, at The Langham Huntington, a luxury resort hotel in Pasadena, Calif., according to Entertainment Tonight. Hardwick, 44, donned a custom Prada tuxedo during the wedding ceremony, which was attended by about 450 guests. The 31-year-old bride, on the other hand, wore a custom-made Christian Siriano gown, which she matched with a pair of pavé crystal Stuart Weitzman shoes. Since Hardwick and Hearst share a love for science fiction, their wedding florist Mark Held drew inspiration from the couple's favorite sci-fi and comic book series. People reported that Held put red roses, Tardis blue hydrangea and Vanda orchids around the venue to give the nuptials a very unique touch.