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Chinese Mourners Use A.I. to Digitally Resurrect the Dead

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0:00 [Music] all right fam we haven't talked about Chinese news in a minute so we're going to talk about some China China China all right so um Chinese parents were mourning the death of their son so in a way to cope with it they actually turned to AI to digitally resurrect their dead son and give him a speech or a send off that he would say to them at this funeral wow and I find this very interesting was it very touching what what if it was real and they're like you ████ forc me to do be a doctor I didn't want to be a doctor I wanted to be a ████ trapeze guy at the circus and they're like pulling the wires how do you turn this ████

0:50 off like it's so perfectly programmed yeah and then the I like oh this fo had a lot of resentment let me tell you got all his traumas so this is interesting because there words that obviously this late son had never spoke but um obviously through artificial intelligence they got him to say these things and it says quote I know you're in great pain every day because of me and feel guilty and helpless even though I can't be by your side ever again my soul is still in this world accompanying you through life wow I would have been like that is not my son ████ reprogram that AI also feels very general like a greeting card it's interesting right it is interesting like that's that's a unique way to cope I don't know if they have it but I almost rather have like your fondest video and then play that at the FI like

1:41 a compilation yeah compilation or maybe even just like a raw just a raw clip of something they always said that you captured that you just like just the Classic Conan O'Brien sty where it's a frozen picture and the mouth's moving yeah yeah yeah so good let him have some dignity with the little and then like you have like President Bush's voice yeah yeah I can imagine the extremity of this it's like you know maybe you haven't spoken to your child in a long time so then you create this Ai and it's like I'm sorry for that fight we had it was my fault I want you to know it was never your fault you know what I mean you like put into your kids words things that like will help you cope but maybe is not necessarily like their truth but the weird part is you're inputting what they would say exactly cuz it makes sense when you visit the tombstone and then you say what you have to say but it's weird like but this is what he

2:32 would have said back yes Dad I was wrong the whole time you know it's like you know it would be cool if it's like was this on Star Wars where they have like a hologram of that ████ and then they have a program to that personality so they can say they would say what they that you that that they probably would have said yeah but they always put disclaimers in those things they're always like I'm only able to say a couple different things so ask me a yes oral question or like you know what I mean but I think that's what they should do at the at the tombstone the grave like in the future they can AI like program you probably get a huge compilation of like like they could actually do it to a life vlogger like if if you if you've been recording yourself from like ████ teens to all the way to like 60 right let's say you died a little early at like 61 or whatever and your family members are like man what would what

3:22 would dad say let's go let's go to the uh uh uh let's go to the grave and ask him and then you hit up the ████ grave Ai and he comes out you going be like Dad all right so like I really like Taylor but then like Taylor like she's like I don't know she's kind of a ████ but then there's this other girl Michelle and like she's kind of cool but she's ████ ugly what do you think I should do and then Dad would be like all right this is what you do and he's programed to answer you so if he's like you he's like first of all you need to jack off you don't know what you're going to want what you want to do you got to think clear good boy yeah be the good boy it's all like the audio is super loud at the cemetery way too they're like who the ████ step one jack off clear your mind oh that's just dead Joe again yeah oh geez dead Joe goes off if if the wind hits it I guess I guess in a way they

4:14 still kind of have that like with historical figures you can ask like Chad gbt to talk to you like it's them I mean but they're only going to answer you like basically just a different word form of what Wikipedia would tell you information of so yeah same deal I guess well I mean in this situation though this this dude woo and his wife have joined a growing number of Chinese people turning to aite Tech to create lifelike avatars of their departed and ultimately woo wants to build a fully realistic replica that behaves just like his dead son but dwells in the virtual reality quote once we synchronize reality and the metaverse I'll have my son with me again I can train him so that when he sees me he knows I'm his father do you feel like that's good for mour I just say cope harder ████ I don't I don't think it is cuz that's like you're not letting go cuz also when you are in morning you're also not making the best decisions anyway so like I wouldn't advertise products like that

5:05 to people that are in that exact state of mind cuz like it if you were to zoom out in the next like 5 years for this this couple like would that be the best move for them no because I watch Inception and you know how he kept her in the memory it's to you're not you can't move on yeah but I also watched Wedding Crashers and will frell just ████ funeral crashes cuz he knows that ████ are going to be easier then so it's like if there's a company that stands to profit over people and their immoralities yeah yeah yeah that's true a great point one way that I can see it working and being helpful is if like you just you were kind of numb from a a loved one's death and you couldn't feel anything and you're just kind of struggling with like how it got you so stunned and then if you were to do that and you could face to face like speak to the person a simulation and that breaks you and then you cry and you release I could see that being helpful I could

5:56 also see and this is very dark and extreme but let's say like you uh lose your child and then you have no will or reason to live after that so your next thought maybe is like exiting the world yourself but if you have a digital companion and verion which is a very fake and unrealistic world but you can exist with that who gives a ████ if it's not hurting anybody else that's true like who are we to keep people from getting it if yeah you know what I mean that low already do you want though low recognize low are you trying to go somewhere else like get another relationship like go heal your wounds like what are you trying to do I mean I think in this guy's case he just wants his son with him always it ain't and I know it's weird sentiment like yeah you love your son like crazy but let go but yeah you got to you got to let go you got to like more than cuz I feel like that would torture the family right exacerbates the

6:47 pain and then holding on to this hope that will never happen yeah well in a weird way ai's making it happen right like imagine if something that'll never be your son cuz you know when you see like not exaggerates thank you it's a extracurricular so you know how extal okay Excalibur is a cool ass Hotel what's the question what's up with that did you know that you can take a room that has a bathtub next to your bed no way so it's not even in the bathroom it's like in the whole room you could take a bath take two steps and go inside your bed here I got to check it out wet so you remember movies like U like minority or port or whatever right and then Cruz when he has like that ████ emotional whatever he always plays that digital memory and it's a Memory it's the same thing happening over and over and they're like stuck in the past but

7:38 that's real that's what I'm saying a video is different than AI stuck on that same thing but he's not like checking in with his kid who's like giving I like bubblegum like buum Cy candy oh that's my son oh wow my baby boy boy yeah how old was his son di when they died uh Excalibur no like how2 does Excalibur have a movie theater or and maybe I'm out yeah it's it's just different when it's not even real it's I I do like the wisdom thingy though like like let's say if it was like Bruce Lee you know and then you got all the ████ you got all the personality traits the films you you hear stories from let's say it's like Bruce Lee like so if you got a Bruce Lee AI I'm out of here have a safe FL nothing personal but yeah whatever what what a ████ reference what a weak

8:28 reference will can we change it to Willis all right Bruce Willis we reference hey Merry Christmas ████ see you later later I love you guys love hey we're not meeting till January January right y Happy New Year too all right happy New Year whether it's Bruce Lee ████ say FL confus Ed cut all this sentimental saying goodbye stuff out so it just looks like he's an ████ no no no no I I just didn't appreciate that reference I'm out of here so overrated Jackie Chan forever whether it's Bruce Lee oh my God whether it's ████ Spartacus anybody right so like you create a profile of this person he's a Ai and you can have a meeting with them and then they give you advice so it's like a master class is is

9:18 that so unlike creating a version of another cuz they're also real people maybe you didn't give birth to them but they're still like yeah without their permission recreating them to like anyway yeah yeah but imagine if we can do that like at a library so instead of pulling out a book you just pull out Socrates and you be like hey soccer hom so they're only allowed to speak on things that they've spoken of before they can't generate new thoughts I think that's the difference that's the difference is you going to talk to like a historical figure they're not going to be like oh I was depressed I killed myself it was tough like they're not going to I would I would love to have ARA's peanut butter cup even though I never tasted it before yeah think be silly you got to upload you got to do a little hack to do that but like I think what will be cool is you do that for the for people that maybe we could create a pretty accurate profile for but also for

10:10 family members that like you're just like oh can we consult the Oracle Grandma you know and then it's like great grandma would know what to do and then you ask great grandma what should we do and then AI great grandma goes y'all need to stop bickering you need to be a good family stop being a ████ dumbass bro you wonder where it gets Danger when you have people like let's say that somebody offered themselves and they left behind a journal and they scan the whole ████ loaded into an AI and they go why did you do it well and it could answer because it it's Advanced enough to learn like dude what if it took all the information from that person that already passed and they figured out their personality through AI learning yeah like combined public and private records just to be like what was the motive like why did you do it what you created that without the person dying it

11:00 and then you ask them like how accurate is this AI to how you would answer how you are thinking to test it to test it and then like if they can syn close to the answers oh damn that means they got really close I bet that's realistic right because it's based on the data that you have so if this for this couple they don't have the enough data to be able to to produce um an AI That's accurate to their son but something like a journal that's like deep thought that that would make a lot more sense but you would need all the evidence for an accurate sing like what if you like didn't have one page of a journal entry that that person emotionally ripped out because they didn't want to express that that was the core thought that would change everything but then it goes back to the whole thing of like you got to just let it go right yeah you have to it goes back to that I think that's what it is when it comes to death that's the point of death yeah because you know obviously

11:50 that's that's the reason why human life is valuable right is like exactly that's where the value comes in yeah and and that's why we have to do everything we can to try to like you know your son like ████ you're like you know what I'll just treat my AI son better cuz it's like a red I don't really care about you you can become a better father you know what I mean you have a second chance AI kid get the ████ out of here too late you didn't learn your lesson right I don't know that's you got to Value what you have right now yeah so what happened in this thing forget it dude dude can't be coming with all these ████ hoes and

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