{"id":6145,"date":"2025-10-22T20:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/alan-hamel-ai-clone-wife-suzanne-somers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:28:52","slug":"alan-hamel-ai-clone-wife-suzanne-somers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/alan-hamel-ai-clone-wife-suzanne-somers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Hamel Says He\u2019s Created an AI Clone of His Deceased Wife Suzanne Somers That\u2019s So Good He Can\u2019t Tell the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famed Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel has announced that he\u2019s created an AI clone of his late wife, actress Suzanne Somers, who passed away from breast cancer at the age of 76 in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people,\u201d Hamel told People<\/em><\/a>. \u201cOne of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the 89-year-old producer, the beyond-the-grave rendition of his partner of 55 years is indistinguishable from the real thing. Suzanne AI Twin was reportedly trained on \u201chundreds of interviews,\u201d as well as Somers\u2019 27 books.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Suzanne,\u201d Hamel told People<\/em>. \u201cAnd I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away. When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can\u2019t tell the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I mean, I\u2019ve 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,\u201d he added, \u201cI really can\u2019t tell which one is the real and which one is the AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps most strangely of all, Somers\u2019 AI clone was designed to dispense health advice, which was allegedly cleared by doctors. Given the tech\u2019s strong tendency to hallucinate facts<\/a>, we\u2019ll have to take Hamel by his word that AI Somers won\u2019t be misleading the public \u2014 let alone mindlessly shilling health products currently featured on SuzanneSomers.com, where the clone will eventually be hosted.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s yet another instance of \u201cresurrecting\u201d the dead<\/a> with the power of large language model-based tech. Tech companies have been offering to bring the dead back to life for years now, going as far as to provide entire AI-powered seances<\/a>. All the way back in 2022, months before OpenAI released ChatGPT, a UK startup allowed an AI-based recreation of a deceased woman<\/a> to \u201cattend\u201d her own funeral.<\/p>\n

Why Hamel would want to tarnish his loving memory of his partner of over half a century remains unclear. Is the octogenarian truly enamored by his newfound companion? Is it a matter of refusing to accept his tragic loss? Is he trying to pick up where his late wife left off in selling body butter, hair formula, and makeup on her personal website?<\/p>\n

Hamel told People<\/em> that \u201cit was Suzanne\u2019s idea.\u201d The entertainer said that he and Somers got the idea from futurist and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, with whom they had been friends for \u201c30-some years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew it was coming,\u201d he said, presumably referring to cloning people with the help of AI. \u201cIt took decades to happen, but [Kurzweil] knew it was going to happen, and he shared that information with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Hamel, Somers thought it was a \u201cvery interesting\u201d idea and that it would \u201cprovide a service to my fans and to people who have been reading my books who really want and need information about their health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somers\u2019 fans \u201ccan come and just hang out with her,\u201d Hamel told People<\/em>. \u201cThey can ask her any questions they want. She\u2019ll be available 24\/7, and I think it\u2019ll be really wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, US Weekly<\/em> reported<\/a> that Hamel had teamed up with humanoid robotics company Realbotix to create a \u201cdigital twin,\u201d suggesting he may have also been interacting with a robotic version of his late wife. An image<\/a> of a robot shared by the publication at the time doesn\u2019t even have a passing resemblance to Somers, leaving the possibility that the company has been working on a separate robot we have yet to see photos of.<\/p>\n

More on AI clones:<\/strong> CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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