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The Chinese are using AI chatbots to “resurrect” their dead family members
The AI world is just getting started. Mankind is likely to find new and innovative uses for AI. But here is one which I found extremely ingenious.
“Resurrecting” the dead has become a popular application of generative AI in China. It’s one element of an AI gold rush in the country, as entrepreneurs race to invent new consumer-facing apps on top of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. While LLMs could generate text messages, these businesses give the bots cloned voices and appearances that resemble those of the deceased.
It’s part of a global trend that has made it easier for people to create customized avatars featuring personas of their loved ones, celebrities, or themselves. Users around the world have shared stories of training ChatGPT to mimic their deceased family members. In Taiwan, a tech startup recently launched an app that can create AI avatars of deceased pets. U.S.-based startup HereAfter AI offers to preserve users’ personas after death if they upload recordings of their memories.
These bots are uniquely prominent in China, especially around the Qingming tomb-sweeping festival in early April — a day to commemorate the dead. With the Chinese government keeping a tight control over religion and spirituality, AI avatars have offered those who have lost loved ones a new way to connect with the deceased.
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When global companies treat their customers differently
This is something which should make us very careful of whatever is being peddled to us irrespective of attractive ads. A trusted brand like Nestle adding sugar to Indian baby food but not to European ones is something that should make our food regulators sit up and take notice.
Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international guidelines aimed at preventing obesity and chronic diseases, a report has found.
The results, and examination of product packaging, revealed added sugar in the form of sucrose or honey in samples of Nido, a follow-up milk formula brand intended for use for infants aged one and above, and Cerelac, a cereal aimed at children aged between six months and two years.
In Nestlé’s main European markets, including the UK, there is no added sugar in formulas for young children. While some cereals aimed at older toddlers contain added sugar, there is none in products targeted at babies between six months and one year.
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