With just one minute of high-quality video, a Chinese company claims it can bring your loved ones back to life - via a very convincing, AI-generated avatar. “I do not treat the avatar as a kind of digital person, I truly regard it as a mother,” Sun Kai tells NPR, in a recent interview. Kai, age 47, works in the port city of Nanjing and says he converses with his mother - who is deceased - at least once a week on his computer. Sun works at Silicon Intelligence in China, and he says that his company can create a basic avatar for as little as $30 USD (199 Yuan). But what’s the real cost of recreating a person who has passed?

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