Admittedly a terrible idea she had Amazon taking into account alexa, because he decided to give her the opportunity imitate the voice of deceased loved ones.

This new feature was introduced on June 22, and it is not yet known when it will be completed and available to users.

If you have many questions, starting with the practical part of the case, Mr. Rohid Prasad and the key scientist behind the project in question explained to the Guardian that the technology to support such a feature has been around for many years and just 1 minute of recorded voice sample is enough each person so that the function can be supported.

During the presentation of this new Amazon digital assistant feature, the boy curiously asked, “Can my grandma finish reading The Wizard of Oz for me?” The boy’s grandmother is no longer alive to fulfill his wish, but Alexa was able to.

This technological step can give rise to many questions of ethics and not only nature. Hours before Amazon unveiled this new feature it’s cooking up, Microsoft published several new rules regarding the use of artificial intelligence, which set limits on who can create synthetic voices and for what.

The idea of ​​resurrecting the dead with the help of technology is not new. In 2020, Joshua Barbeau trained a robot to talk to his late fiancée. In 2018, again Evgenia Kunda built a chatbot based on old messages from her partner Roman Mazurenko.

According to the Guardian.