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Japan’s Kore-eda explores AI’s role in grief in Cannes contender
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- Add ARY News on Google AAResize CANNES, France – If a couple loses a child, would it be ethical to use AI to try to recreate the child if it eases their grief?
- These are the questions posed by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose Cannes Film Festival entry, “Sheep in the Box,” imagines a near future in which technology offers a way to comfort the
- The 2018 winner of the festival’s top prize said the film was inspired by his encounter with a Chinese entrepreneur who was developing AI systems capable of simulating deceased people.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize CANNES, France – If a couple loses a child, would it be ethical to use AI to try to recreate the child if it eases their grief? And what happens when that AI decides it has its own interests beyond the family that it was meant to console?
These are the questions posed by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose Cannes Film Festival entry, “Sheep in the Box,” imagines a near future in which technology offers a way to comfort the
The 2018 winner of the festival’s top prize said the film was inspired by his encounter with a Chinese entrepreneur who was developing AI systems capable of simulating deceased people.
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