AI Chatbots Offer Comfort to the Bereaved

June 8, 2023

(AFP via Yahoo! News) – Staying in touch with a loved one after their death is the promise of several start-ups using the powers artificial intelligence, though not without raising ethical questions. Ryu Sun-yun sits in front of a microphone and a giant screen, where her husband, who died a few months earlier, appears. “Sweetheart, it’s me,” the man on the screen tells her in a video demo. In tears, she answers him and a semblance of conversation begins. (Read More)