China family creates AI clone to comfort elderly mum after only son dies in car accident

At the beginning of last year, the mother’s only child died in a traffic accident. His family hoped to conceal the news from his mother, who is in her 80s and has heart disease. The man’s son contacted Zhang, asking him to create a digital twin of his father by providing numerous pictures, videos and audio recordings of him speaking in his dialect. The creation looks exactly like the dead man and even mimics his habit of leaning forward while speaking, the report said. The virtual son talks to the mother every day via a video call at a chat...