Watch the video: a smart system that allows you to talk and see your deceased relatives

  Soon people can talk to deceased family members thanks to "Ghostbot" AI.

Microsoft has applied for a patent for an application that can digitally embody the deceased using images, voice data, social media posts, emails, and letters.

The app will then allow living relatives to interact with their loved ones from behind the grave through smart devices such as Amazon Alexa or Google Nest.

The technology will also see 2D or 3D models of the deceased created with the images.

Microsoft's patent says that social data will be used to "create or edit a special index on the topic of a specific person's personality."

But critics said that while the "ghost" could help people through the grieving process, some referred to it as a "frightening and terrifying" experience.

"The private index can be used to train a chatbot to speak and interact with the character of a specific deceased person," Microsoft adds.

Techrepublic.com described the idea as "interesting and terrifying" while tech blogger Ubergizmo said: "We admit that it may be somewhat nostalgic to be able to" talk "to a deceased loved one over the Internet as a chatbot can imitate this person in a form. Realistic.

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'They don't want to date': how AI will help Japanese people increase the birth rate

Japan will subsidize local governments to develop artificial intelligence technology for matching. Thus, the government is trying to overcome the demographic crisis. What is the difference between Japanese mobile dating applications and foreign ones, will AI help to increase the birth rate in the country, and how dating services can turn people into recluses - in the article. However, experts are not convinced that this method will help Japan increase its birth rate.

Technological matchmaking

Japan has decided to fund the development of artificial intelligence in the field of matching partners through mobile applications. According to the BBC, in this way, the country intends to raise the birth rate.

Japan is now experiencing a serious demographic crisis. Last year, the number of newborns in the country fell below 865 thousand. The rapidly aging nation has long been looking for ways to boost fertility, and now the government has decided to rely on high-tech advances.

So, from next year, Tokyo will subsidize local governments, as well as various projects that use AI to bring people together. The government plans to allocate 2 billion yen (about 1.5 billion rubles) for the implementation of this plan.

Various matchmaking services operate in nearly half of the country's 47 prefectures, and some of them have already begun to use artificial intelligence technology to improve the quality of user profile analysis. Some of the existing dating companies limit themselves to looking at criteria such as income and age and only give a result if there is an exact match.

The government hopes that funding dating services will help bring the technology to a new level and it will find a match for people, taking into account factors such as hobbies and life values.

“We plan to offer subsidies to those local governments that have already created or want to create projects using artificial intelligence. We hope that the funding will help stop and even reverse the decline in the birth rate in the country, ”said a representative of the Japanese government.

The authorities expect to use more expensive advanced systems that will take into account a number of personal qualities of a person, as well as various aspects of his social status, which in turn increases the likelihood of choosing an “ideal” partner, local media write.

Serious approach

One of the most widespread and famous dating apps in the world today is Tinder. In it, the user is given the opportunity to choose a partner they like from a list made up of candidates suitable for your needs. It should be noted that the selection criteria are minimal: gender, age, and distance between users.

On dating sites for Japanese people, you have to pay for each new message. It is noteworthy that on some services only a man pays for services, while registration is free for everyone. One such application, Pairs, requires identification in order to start a chat.

In addition, Japanese services differ from Tinder by the ability to specify a huge amount of information in the profile, which greatly simplifies the search for the "ideal" soul mate.

Latent danger

According to Chigadaev, the decline in the birth rate is a global trend that has affected almost all countries. Japan is one of the most highly developed post-industrial societies, which is why the problem of declining birth rates is so strongly visible there.

“Today there is no effective incentive to 'force' people to give birth more. Without appropriate social, religious, or political pressure in a democratic society, if a woman can not give birth, then she does not give birth ... It sounds very simple, but now people give birth to children only because they want children, ”the expert said.

When asked whether high-tech services will be able to influence the growth of the birth rate, the expert replied that most likely not.

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South Korea introduces an AI news anchor

 

It seems that what was appearing years ago as part of science fiction movies and novels has now become a reality, and the analyzes that were talking about robots and artificial intelligence will gradually begin to take over some human jobs have become a reality and close to realization.

The occasion for this is the discovery of a South Korean channel about a new artificial intelligence broadcaster specializing in providing news, and in any case it is not a new idea and something similar was revealed not long ago by the Chinese, but the difference is that this new anchor is based on Artificial intelligence technology is actually a version of MBN's South Korean broadcaster called Kim Ju-ha, while her robotic version is called AI Kim,

In a conversation between them, AI Kim seemed able to speak with the same tone as the original broadcaster in addition to the same facial expressions, as the artificial anchor commented about that by saying: “I created through deep learning for 10 hours of video for Kim Ju-ha, She knows the details of her voice, the way she speaks, facial expressions, the way her lips move, and the way her body moves. I am able to report the news the same way anchor Kim Ju-ha does.

According to the South Korean TV channel MBN, AI Kim is able to read the news 24 hours a day without stopping.

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