With the bonus of technology, can a daughter who died early due to illness return to her or participate in future life in a special way?
Editor’s note: This article comes from the universal editing department, author Kardashian Hyun.
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Li Yang heard the voice of her deceased daughter again after 3 months.
She was reading a composition aloud, and that composition was praised by the teacher.
To be precise, this is not the daughter’s own reading, but the imitation of a daughter’s voice synthesized using AI technology. And when he heard it for the first time, Li Yang couldn’t help but say, “It’s quite similar.”
This may be just the beginning: a composition read aloud, with a very similar voice … to make this “lost independence” mother in Shanghai seem to see her daughter “rebirth”. She might wonder if the daughter who died prematurely could return to her, or participate in the future life in a special way, with the bonus of technology.
Resurrecting a lost mother with her daughter using AI
My daughter Chen Jin has been away for a year. That year, she suddenly left because she had “T lymphoblastic lymphoma” and was only 14 years old. In Li Yang’s memory, her daughter was just young and full of aura. “She likes to run around, loves to travel, and math is also very good.” Her daughter will always change her pattern to find parents to earn pocket money. After getting a fixed copy from her mother, she will also give her “work” massage and earn One copy, without paying attention, tens of thousands of dollars, but never spend money arbitrarily … Recalling the little bit of her daughter, Li Yang still remembers it.
As a mother, Li Yang has always felt that she owes too much to her daughter. Because of her illness, she failed to satisfy her daughter’s desire to travel to Australia and Turkey; nor was she able to give her more love, more pampering, or even a hug in the last stage of her daughter’s life.
After the child left, the home was quiet. Without the sound of chirp, this often makes Li Yang feel empty. Li Yang works in the pharmaceutical industry, and her professionalism allows her to have a calm and objective understanding of death. She had forced herself to become “optimistic”, and she told herself that life would continue. She always goes to her daughter’s favorite cafe and orders an American coffee for her and her daughter. This is their common habit.
Li Yang misses his daughter more than that. She often wondered if she could keep her daughter’s voice, her daughter’s thoughts, and put everything about her into her mobile phone by using some technical means.The child has been with him all the time, and it should have been a long journey.
Li Yang’s whimsical and miraculous support. By accident, Li Yang found Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab on Weibo. She sent a request to Ali’s engineers to use AI to make her hear her daughter speak to her again.
Even if it’s not so close to what it looks like in memory.
It took three months, basically from scratch. The Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab completed the first audio synthesis, which took up to 20 seconds.
That’s an essay written by Chen Jin, which records the story of her going hiking with her mother. When the girl climbed to the mountainside, she was exhausted and wanted to go down the mountain halfway home. At this time, “Mom smiled and answered meaningfully: ‘Children, I remember a celebrity once said that success is persistence and success is not a big thing. The strength depends on how long you can persist. As long as you persist, you will be able to climb to the top of the mountain as soon as possible! ‘”After listening to the encouragement of the mother, the daughter” again ignited the fighting spirit and pulled the mother’s hand and rushed upwards. , Repeatedly gritted my teeth and persisted, exhausted the power of flooding in my body. Finally, I finally climbed to the top of the mountain, and I was so excited that I jumped and jumped, just like a winning general. ”
A few months later I heard Chen Jin’s voice again. Li Yang didn’t cry, but just said calmly: “The tone of the beginning of this audio is almost the same as that of my daughter.”
It is difficult to reproduce love, and AI is no exception.
Can AI fill the emptiness of human mind? Just from the point of love, using AI to help a painful and lost mother, so as to create an object that can constantly “respond”, and fill her regret that she cannot rest, which is impeccable. But things don’t stop there.
At the other end of the technology, Ali’s engineers are also arguing about it. On the one hand, the technology school hopes to make up for the life of his mother Li Yang through technological upgrading; on the other hand, the ethics school believes that the development of technology is constantly challenging the boundaries of ethics. They are afraid that when “AI Chen Jin” appeared, the mother Li Yang You will be addicted to it, so you cannot really get out of the pain of the bereavement. Of course, such debates have not stopped, and there will always be …
If it is said that today AI has taken a small step to help the resurrected daughter of the lost mother, can it be considered that this will subvert the inherent definition of the human death proposition. After all, the question of death is left to the living.
From the young Chen Jin to “AI Chen Jin”; from never losing love to saying “a word that makes mother Li Yang’s heart tremble”. AI is taking this step hard. Due to the extremely small amount of material, it is difficult for AI to learn enough samples. It can only be “feeded” by similar speech corpora, and try again and again to simulate Xiao Chen Jin’s tone and tone. In China, this is the first such attempt.
In foreign countries, there is another precedent. In 2016, the father of well-known American journalist James Vlahos detected advanced lung cancer.