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New AI tool allows mourners to have conversations with the dead

The idea of conversing with mourners at your own funeral may sound like the plot from the latest episode of Black Mirror.

But it could become a reality, thanks to a Los Angeles-based startup, which has developed a ‘holographic conversational video experience’.

StoryFile creates a digital clone of the subject by using 20 synchronised cameras to record them answering a series of questions.