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Chinese mourners turn to AI to remember and 'revive' loved ones
- hunglee2 3y agoDigital immortality will play out differently across cultures. Ancestor worship - really more ancestor veneration - remains a big deal in China, where the ancestors kind of remain in the family in perpetuity, more akin to having gone to a different room in house, rather than entering into a paradise as in the Abrahamic traditions. I think Chinese will embrace AI avatars of the deceased without too much angst, whereas this would be a blasphemous in the Western tradition
- LarsDu88 3y agoI became a dad this year, and I've long been thinking that the perfect LLM startup idea really could be centered around collecting data as an insurance policy against dying. Justin Kan strapped a camera to himself over 20 years ago recording everything he did. In 2024 I can actually consider recording all the audio, video, and text I experience to train a facsimile of myself in the oft chance I get crushed by a piano. At least my family members might have some version of me to consult with if I kicked the bucket.