Talk to your dead grandmother thanks to AI

Spectator World ^ | 12/07/2025 | Mary Wakefield

[higgmeister]

Talk to your dead grandmother thanks to AI

I am not reading this.   I don't believe that either of my grandmothers have their voices recording. One born in 1890 and they other born in 1907 which makes me certain that AI would have not even a clue to allow me to talk to her.

[shaggy eel]

,,, hyper creepy.

[MayflowerMadam]

Necromancy. Definitely🤨

[Jonty30]

No. No thanks.

I’m good.

[Jamestown1630]

People mentally ‘talk’ with their dead loved ones all the time. They’re not using it as a form of divination, as the definition of ‘necromancy’ implies, but just as an emotional connection to the past and their memories.

[real saxophonist]

What you ‘need’ may be very different from what somebody else may ‘want’.

I get that, for sure.

[BiteYourSelf]

Sounds a little like the machine-stored personalitys from the HeeChee saga.

[alexander_busek]

They’re not using it as a form of divination, as the definition of ‘necromancy’ implies, but just as an emotional connection to the past and their memories.

Gramma wasn't the sharpest tack in the box, so I don't think that I would want to follow her stockmarket tips.

There was an interesting "Night Gallery" episode about this sort of thing:

Regards,