‘The Gift of Being Remembered’
HereAfter is an artificial intelligence startup that attempts to create a virtual replica of you that your family and friends can access long after you’ve kicked the bucket. The company uses a “virtual interviewer” (AKA a chatbot ask a potential series of questions about themselves and their life history. HereAfter then instructs users to submit audio recordings of the subject talking about memorable moments of their life as well as a handful of photos to make the replica more personal.
Armed with all that data, HereAfter says they can make a virtual replica of yourself your ones can interact with at any moment.
As far as startups promising a digital afterlife with today’s current generative AI models go, most of them are working on some variation of HereAfter’s model.
