The mechanical seance
Building a digital ghost
Navigating the digital afterlife
YOUR GOAL
Master of The digital seance and the rise of grief tech
007skaty Companies like StoryFile and re;memory build digital avatars that smile and answer AI-generated questions during virtual video calls.
007skaty A sleek glass and chrome isometric machine displays glowing vocal waves and precise labels.
007skaty Build your AI ghost generator to learn how technology mimics spirit communication.
The spiral babble: Left to talk to each other, some AI models eventually start babbling in mysterious, repetitive spiritual themes.
An interactive, artificial intelligence-powered representation of a deceased individual reconstructed from their accumulated online data. In 2016, Eugenia Kuyda built a chatbot using text messages to memorialize her late friend Roman Mazurenko.
007skaty The Project December chatbot experiment simulated conversations with deceased people
Which technology allows users to have simulated video calls with deceased relatives?
How do interactive avatars like those from StoryFile differ from simple video recordings?
What is one of the main limitations of current generative AI chatbots in replicating a deceased person?