I think their point is that it won't ever be there/them. What makes a person can not be consolidated down into written documentation.

To add to that, AI is technically there. You can make an interactive image of someone (3D may not be there yet) with a custom voice and have it respond like the original person (based on info we have on them). The issue is that it will never actually be that person.

I think that kind of thing works best as an actor who has put in the work bringing that human element to it, like that Mark Twain thing you went to. It keeps that sense of distance, so you know it’s not 100% that historical figure (since I guarantee some people would absolutely believe that an ai “George Washington” is somehow like an actual scan of George Washington’s brain). I also think a human can bring that passion and understanding to the performance that an ai just can’t do, even if it’s an advanced, not-constantly-hallucinating ai

I have also enjoyed two similar shows, not mark twain, but also one man shows embodying a historical figure, apparently it's a popular thing to do. I am glad to hear you had a positive experience like that.

I hope you did not feel I was taking your comment in bad faith. I believe I understood where you were coming from, but I think though the desire is valid, there's no real way for AI to ever accomplish that. I understand that you want it to be grounded in fact, and I just think that in order to ground things in fact, it has to exclusively quote the original documents.

If I asked a perfectly modeled George Washington if the US should have been created, one could argue the AI Washington could reasonably say "yes". If I then explained to that AI Washington that the country actually went on to create political factions exactly as he warned against and then provided a list of atrocities committed by the US and said they would not have been committed if we were under British rule, and then also explained how the British government has changed since he passed, and asked if he still supported the forming of the US, what is the AI going to say? One could make arguments multiple ways and even a "perfect" AI would never actually know. People can hold contradictory opinions or have their minds changed in unpredictable ways when given new information. My point is that historical documents are just that. Historical documents. They are not a perfect representation of the person and we should never expect them to be. To model an AI off of them and suggest talking to it is talking to the original person is in my opinion a falsehood and always will be no matter how good the AI is. I hear that you don't think we're there yet, but I would suggest that even if every moment of someone's life could be analyzed by AI, there is no talking to them through the AI. Only a guess at what they might have said. That may be fine for some people, but I think it's not positive to have people believe they definitely know what Washington would say about the marvel cinematic universe. I thought my interpretation was clear, and I'm now seeing a different comment that seems to have at least understood where I was coming from. They were much more concise lol.