Overview
- The announcement came in a People interview, where Hamel described the likeness as visually and conversationally indistinguishable from Somers.
- He plans to host the AI on suzannesomers.com as a 24/7 chatbot for fans to ask questions.
- Hamel says the system was trained on all 27 of Somers’ books alongside numerous interviews to shape its responses.
- He says the bot will answer health questions using information from doctors Somers interviewed, a claim not independently verified in the coverage.
- Hamel says Somers conceived the project decades ago after conversations about AI, including with Ray Kurzweil; she died in October 2023 at age 76.