Coming straight out of MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program, Eterni.me is a soon-to-launch online service that will keep people’s personality alive and well long after they’ve passed away.
Given that the site hasn’t launched in full just yet, details on how it’ll work are not fully clear, but the general idea behind it is it builds a personality of an individual based on his or her online activities. By providing Eterni.me with access to chat logs, social network information, e-mails, etc., the program can then go ahead and construct certain mannerisms, and store specific memories for reference in conversation later on.
A bit more specifically, the Eterni.me website describes the technology as follows:
“Eterni.me collects almost everything that you create during your lifetime, and processes this huge amount of information using complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Then it generates a virtual YOU, an avatar that emulates your personality and can interact with, and offer information and advice to, your family and friends after you pass away. It's like a Skype chat from the past.”
That’s everything the site has to offer, other than some background on the individuals involved with the project. The only thing worth noting is that people who visit and are interested in partaking in the service can enter their e-mail for updates on when it officially launches.
While the concept might sound a bit creepy, in an interview with Boston.com, Marius Ursache, Eterni.me’s Chief Executive, said the site received more than 1,300 e-mail registrations in less than 24 hours.
So there’s definitely interest. It just remains to be seen how well Eterni.me executes its idea.
Story via cnet.com
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