We're sunsetting PodQuest on 2025-07-28. Thank you for your support!
Export Podcast Subscriptions
cover of episode One Last Conversation, With the Help of A.I.

One Last Conversation, With the Help of A.I.

2024/10/23
logo of podcast Modern Love

Modern Love
AI Deep Dive AI Chapters Transcript
People
M
Madeline De Figueiredo
Topics
Madeline De Figueiredo: 我丈夫去世后,我尝试了各种方法来与他保持联系,比如烹饪他的菜肴、听他的语音留言、观看他的视频等等。但这些都无法填补我内心的空虚。在丈夫的生日那天,我尝试使用AI技术重建他的声音,希望能和他再次对话。起初,听到AI重建的声音,我感到非常震惊和兴奋,仿佛他真的回到了我身边。我们进行了一次对话,我感觉自己真的在和他说话,这让我既欣喜又害怕。然而,在对话过程中,AI给出的建议与我丈夫的性格完全不符,这让我意识到这只是一场虚幻的对话,AI无法真正理解和代替我的丈夫。这段经历虽然痛苦,但也让我更加珍惜对丈夫的记忆,并重新开始给他写信,用这种传统的方式来与他沟通。我意识到科技再发达,也无法取代真实的感情和记忆。最后,我整理了他留下的遗物,这让我感觉更接近他,也帮助我更好地走出悲伤。 Anna Martin: 在节目的访谈中,我与Madeline De Figueiredo进行了深入的交流,了解了她使用AI技术重建丈夫声音的经历。Madeline的经历引发了我们对科技与情感、科技与记忆之间关系的思考。AI技术可以帮助我们重建声音,但它无法真正代替逝去的人,也无法完全复制他们的情感和智慧。Madeline的经历告诉我们,科技可以作为一种辅助工具,帮助我们应对悲伤,但最终的疗伤还是要依靠我们自身的情感和记忆。在与AI对话后,Madeline重新开始写信给她的丈夫,这是一种更传统、更贴近情感的方式。她整理丈夫遗物,重温过去的记忆,这些都帮助她更好地走出了悲伤。Madeline的经历提醒我们,科技的进步固然令人欣喜,但我们更应该珍惜人与人之间真实的联系和情感。

Deep Dive

Chapters
Madeline recounts how she met Eli in college, highlighting his unique curiosity and energetic personality. Their relationship developed, leading to an unexpected engagement despite Madeline's initial hesitations about marriage. The chapter concludes with Madeline expressing her unexpected love for married life with Eli.
  • Met Eli in college dorm
  • Eli's energetic curiosity and questioning nature
  • Madeline's initial hesitation about marriage
  • Eli's proposal after Thanksgiving
  • Madeline's unexpected love for being married to Eli

Shownotes Transcript

Madeline de Figueiredo lost her husband, Eli, just a year after they married. After his death, she tried everything she could to reconnect with him: cooking from his recipe book, dancing to playlists he made, watching videos of him and listening to voice mail messages he left her. But her grief persisted.

Then, on what was supposed to be Eli’s 27th birthday, Madeline realized she could use A.I. to recreate his voice and try to talk to him again. On this episode of the “Modern Love” podcast, Madeline tells us what it felt like to hear that recreation of Eli’s voice, and how it changed the way she reconnects with him.

This episode is adapted from Madeline’s Modern Love essay from 2024, “Our Last, Impossible Conversation).”

We want to hear from you! We’re looking for stories, thoughts and feelings about egg freezing. Are you planning to freeze your eggs? What are you considering? Have you frozen your eggs? What happened, and how do you feel about it now? Leave us a voice mail message on the Modern Love hotline at (212) 589-8962‬. Please include your name, hometown and a callback number.

Want to submit your own Modern Love essay to The New York Times? Read how), or consider submitting a Tiny Love Story).

Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts) or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.