Sunday, October 20, 2019

IMMORTALITY, SORT OF

Did you ever wish you could just have one more chance to talk to one of your departed loved ones? Well, you may be able to do that now thanks to a new app named "HereAfter".  When we talk of memories in FamilySearch, we're usually talking about photos, stories, audio recordings, documents and videos.

When Alan Kaplan's father became terminally ill with cancer, he did what many of us do, make recordings of his father's life. Then he had all of the recordings transcribed. Having doe that, the recordings and book sit on a shelf. So what's next? Could Artificial Intelligence bring some life into some of these memories?

The answer arrived in the form of "AndyBot", a virtual person who will live in the cloud for as long as there is a cloud. It will have all those memories, both written and oral, available on line similar to Amazon's Alexa. All those memories will be available for future generations. All they have to do as ask questions and listen to get stories and a lifetime's worth of advice long after his father  was gone.

For more information Check out "HereAfter" at their website at: https://www.hereafter.ai.

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