Suzanne Somers' widower to release AI clone of late actress
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Two years after Suzanne Somers died following a decades-long battle with breast cancer, her widower is preparing to publicly release of a clone of the beloved “Three’s Company” star.
Alan Hamel, who married the actress in 1977, revealed that he’s forging ahead with plans to create an artificial intelligence version of his late wife.
“Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people,” he told People magazine in an interview published Tuesday. “One of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin.”
According to Hamel, who shared a demonstration of the lifelike robot earlier this year, Somers had been kicking around the idea for decades with inventor Ray Kurzweil.
“He became our friend 30-some years ago and we talked about this,” Hamel said. “It took decades to happen, but he knew it was going to happen, and he shared that information with us.”
Hamel told the outlet it all his wife’s idea as a way to “provide a service” to her fans and to the readers of her books who “need information about their health.”
“She said, ‘Let’s do it.’ So that’s the reason we did it,” he said. “I love being able to fulfill her wish.”
Upon the completion of the AI clone, which includes training it on the ThighMaster trailblazer’s 27 books and hundreds of previously recorded interviews, he plans to put it on SuzanneSomers.com so that fans can interact with it any time they want.
Hamel said he considers the project “perfect,” even though it’s not quite ready for public consumption just yet.
“When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference. It’s amazing,” he said. “I mean, I’ve been with Suzanne for 55 years, so I know what her face looks like, and when I just look at the two of them side by side, I really can’t tell which one is the real and which one is the AI.”
Somers died in October 2023, a day before her 77th birthday, after living with breast cancer for 23 years.
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