{"id":144493,"date":"2022-08-20T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/hologram-technology-allows-woman-to-answer-questions-at-her-own-funeral"},"modified":"2022-08-20T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:24:00","slug":"hologram-technology-allows-woman-to-answer-questions-at-her-own-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/hologram-technology-allows-woman-to-answer-questions-at-her-own-funeral","title":{"rendered":"Hologram Technology Allows Woman To Answer Questions At Her Own Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hologram-technology-allows-woman-to-answer-questions-at-her-own-funeral2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An AI-driven chatbot technology has allowed one woman to answer questions from beyond the grave at her own funeral, with mourners able to dive into her fascinating life in a morbid but futuristic tribute. The technology was provided by her son, who runs a company that creates \u201cholographic conversational video experiences\u201d, and allowed Holocaust campaigner Marina Smith MBE to be \u201cpresent, in a sense\u201d, according to son Stephen Smith, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/08\/14\/grandmother-talks-mourners-funeral\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Smith passed away in June of this year and her funeral was held shortly after in Nottinghamshire, UK. Having led a meaningful life educating people about the Holocaust, her family wished for her message to continue after her death, and the holographic experience during her funeral allowed just that.<\/p>\n<p>The experience used <a href=\"https:\/\/storyfile.com\/what-is-conversa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">StoryFile<\/a>, an AI conversational bot that uses 20 different cameras and recordings of the subject to create a digital, holographic clone that can be interacted with. While the experience was powered by AI, the answers given to questions were entirely Mrs Smith\u2019s own words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI-driven chatbot technology has allowed one woman to answer questions from beyond the grave at her own funeral, with mourners able to dive into her fascinating life in a morbid but futuristic tribute. The technology was provided by her son, who runs a company that creates \u201cholographic conversational video experiences\u201d, and allowed Holocaust campaigner [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}