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Suzanne Somers passed away two years ago, but her memory lives on, not only through her Hollywood career and businesses, but artificial intelligence too.
Her widower, Alan Hamel, worked with an AI company called Hollo to create a “twin” of his late wife.
“I am working with Hollo, an AI company to create Suzanne AI. It’s very exciting to think about being able to interact with Suzanne’s twin,” Hamel told Fox News Digital in a statement.
At Roth 25, an annual conference that brings together 450 AI companies to meet with investors, Hamel was a guest speaker and did a demonstration with the “Suzanne robot.”
Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, has partnered with an AI company to create a “twin” of his late wife. (Getty Images)
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“Suzanne was the only major star there and two investors with whom I spoke had some very interesting ideas about acquiring Suzanne AI. AI is already changing the world, and I lay awake at night thinking of all the applications from Suzanne AI that will continue her commitment with her 27 books to make the world a better place,” Hamel shared.
He added, “Suzanne AI will live at SuzanneSomers.Com, the company we both created over 44 years ago with global branding that today is a legacy site that specializes in certified toxic free.”
Hamel interacted with the Suzanne Somers AI bot at a recent tech conference. (Courtesy of Hollo.AI)
Rex Wong, CEO of Hollo.AI, also shared a statement with Fox News Digital, explaining, “We have been working with Alan Hamel, Suzanne’s widower and CEO of SuzanneSomers.com, to bring the essence of Suzanne back to life in different ways. Suzanne wrote 27 books, mostly on health and wellness, in her lifetime and Alan wanted to preserve her knowledge and legacy and saw what we were able to do with our AI Twin technology.”
He noted that “AI Suzanne was also trained on a lot of her TV and radio interviews as well as clips from her film/TV work. In addition, we interviewed Alan about his relationship with Suzanne and he additionally provided personal and background information.”
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Hollo.AI allows anybody to create a twin of themselves. Their main technology is their “AI Personality Engine,” which is able to “capture the personality, speech patterns, emotions and knowledge of a person and deliver it in a very human-like conversational way. Users will be able to create their AI Twin in a few minutes by taking a selfie and talking for a few minutes introducing themselves and an AI Twin of them is created that can talk, chat, and sound just like them and can talk in 32 languages.”
Hamel worked with Hollo.AI and Realbotix to create a physical robot of Somers, that could talk and answer questions, trained on her 27 books. (Getty Images)
The company is launching an app in April.
When it came to the Suzanne AI, Wong said, “The robot, which we did in collaboration with Realbotix, is the first of many AI versions of Suzanne but AI Suzanne can also be accessible via call, chat and text. AI Suzanne highlights how we can extend a person’s legacy and bring it to the next generation and one of the services we will be rolling out will be the ability to preserve one’s legacy for future generations or bring back a loved one.
Hollo.AI trained the Suzanne Sommers bot with her books and TV and film appearances (Courtesy of Hollo.AI)
“We have found so many people that have kept phone numbers of a passed loved one just so they can listen to the voice of their loved one once again. We think our AI now allows them to do more than just listen, but instead be able talk, interact and even get wisdom and advice from their passed loved ones.”
Hamel and Somers were married for 46 years, saying “I do” in 1977 and staying together until her death from breast cancer in 2023.
Somers and Hamel were married for 46 years before her death in 2023 from breast cancer. (Courtesy of Alan Hamel)
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Last year, the 88-year-old opened up about the special bond he shared with his late wife.
“We were so resonant that we’d come out of our closets wearing exactly the same colors and crack up,” he told Fox News Digital. “We would communicate while silent. We took a 3,000-mile drive and there were hours we’d not speak, but we knew we were thinking similar thoughts.”
According to Hamel, the idea for an AI twin was something Somers had been on board with before her death.
He told The New York Post it “absolutely did come from her,” and, “She may have known her life was going to be shortened [after a lifelong battle with cancer].”
Hamel said he and Somers were so in sync they would often “come out of our closets wearing exactly the same colors and crack up.” (Courtesy of Alan Hamel)
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Hamel also told the outlet that he has additional plans for Somers’ AI replica, including reaching out to the distributor of “Three’s Company” and the estate of John Ritter to create their own AI of the late actor, and produce additional episodes.
“I think she would smile a lot and be really happy about it,” he said. “She would endorse it. I’m happy about it. My family is happy about it.
Hamel said he hopes to reach out to John Ritter’s estate to create a similar AI robot to Somers’ and eventually create new episodes of “Three’s Company.” (ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
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“One of these days the world will see Suzanne Somers again,” he added.
