Holocaust activist seems to talk to guests at her funeral

Holocaust campaigner Marina Smith appeared able to answer questions at a funeral celebration of her life, thanks to new technology - her son has said.

His mother's words were her own, and not the creation of artificial intelligence , Mr Smith stressed.To make a conversational video, a person must make a recording while still alive, answering numerous questions about their life. "It's just selecting from a pre-recorded set of sequences and cleverly allowing people to cause them to be played," he said.Mrs Smith co-founded the National Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, from where she ran a successful Holocaust education programme. She was awarded an MBE in 2005 for her work.creating interactive holograms of Holocaust survivors for the USC Shoah Foundation.

Previously, it has been suggested that AI could be used to create fully synthetic versions of dead people.

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