The other day I asked “Do We Envy AI?” Does “AI” seem to possess some kinds of transcendence that we aspire to but can’t or haven’t reached? Today, the inverse: using LLMs and related technologies to create representations of ourselves that survive our deaths. Welcome Lucy AI, an art installation/exhibit that was explicitly created in response to Lucy Simic’s stage 4 cancer diagnosis.

Of interest:

  • Lucy AI (Reimagine.ai)
  • How Your Memories Can Live On After You Die (Terms of Service podcast, Claire Duffy, Lucy Simic, David Usher)
  • [Grief bots allow people to talk to the dead. Does it help? Terms of Service](https://youtu.be/NaBRsqFGtos?si=WKtIH37FkkOFvrI9) (Claire Duffy, Mary-Frances O’Connor)