Suzanne Somers passed away two years ago, but her husband, Alan Hamel, is keeping her memory alive through technology.
“Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people. One of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin,” Alan told People Magazine.
Alan shared a demo of the AI twin of his late wife at a conference earlier this year, calling it “perfect.”
“It was Suzanne. And I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away,” he said. “When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference. It’s amazing. And 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.”
Alan and Suzanne were married for 46 years until her death on October 15, 2023 from breast cancer.
The Suzanne Somers AI was trained on the star’s 27 books and hundreds of interviews, “so that she’s really ready to be able to be asked any question at all and be able to answer it, because the answer will be within her.”
According to Alan, Suzanne had been interested in the idea of this kind of technology since the 1980s, when they met inventor and AI scientist Ray Kurzweil and became friends, discussing the advances in AI tech over time.
“So it was Suzanne’s idea. And she said, ‘I think we should do that.’ She said, ‘I think it’ll be very interesting and we’ll provide a service to my fans and to people who have been reading my books who really want and need information about their health.’ She said, ‘Let’s do it.’ So that’s the reason we did it. And so I love being able to fulfill her wish.”
While Alan is impressed with Suzanne’s AI twin for now, there is still some work to do before she’s introduced to the world.
“Once I’m satisfied that we have everything, then we’ll put her on SuzanneSomers.com and we’ll invite all her fans and all our customers to come and talk to her. They can come and just hang out with her. They can ask her any questions they want. She’ll be available 24/7, and I think it’ll be really wonderful,” he said.
He also noted that the Suzanne AI will be able to answer people’s health questions that will “go directly to the doctor she interviewed for that very issue, so it’ll be coming from an MD.”
The interviews and information from Somers’ health and wellness books have been cleared by the vitamin and supplement brand Life Extension, which will check the AI’s accuracy.
“The last thing we wanted was to have any issues about providing interviews about people’s health issues that were incorrect,” Alan said.
