Chinese mourners use AI to digitally resurrect the dead


Seakoo Wu watching a video created with AI showing the face and voice of his son, who died last year aged 22. - AFP

TAIZHOU: At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.

They are words that the late student never spoke, but brought into being with artificial intelligence.

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