The AI indexes the content and guides people to a searchable archive.

New Delhi: The use of artificial intelligence to preserve the voices and stories of the deceased is growing rapidly. Some chatbots speak like loved ones, and some ‘voice’ avatars allow you to ‘talk’ to deceased people. Thus, a new industry is emerging in the digital world, promising to revive memories and, in some cases, preserve them forever.

In a recent study published in ‘Memory, Mind and Media,’ Dr. Eva Nieto McEvoy of King’s College London and Jenny Kidd of Cardiff University explored what happens when the task of remembering the dead is left to an algorithm. They even tried talking to their digital versions.

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