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Alan Hamel said he “couldn’t tell a difference” between his late wife Suzanne Somers and her new AI clone, a demo of which the TV host shared at a conference earlier this year.
“Obviously, Suzanne was very loved, not just by her family, but by millions of people. One of the projects we’re considering is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI twin,” Hamel told People, adding that the project would be “perfect.”
“It was Suzanne,” he said of the AI clone. “And I asked her some questions and she answered them, which surprised me and everyone else.”
“When you look at the finished product next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference. It’s amazing.”
Hamel, who was with Somers for more than 50 years until her death in 2023, said he knows what the Step by Step alum’s real “face” looks like, but he can’t tell the difference between her and the AI robot.
“You really can’t tell which ones are real and which ones are AI,” he told the outlet.
The former Alan Hamel Show host, 89, trained an AI robot using Summers’ 27 books and hundreds of interviews, making the robot’s speech and appearance as close as possible to his late wife’s.
Hamel said that with extensive training, the robot “will be able to answer any question you ask it, because the answer is inside the robot.”
In October 2023, Page Six broke the news that Summers died from breast cancer that had spread to her brain, the day before her 77th birthday.
R. Khouri Hay, the “3’s Company” actress and longtime publicist, said Ms. Somers died “peacefully in her home in the early morning hours of October 15th” after battling “an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years.”
“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce and her extended family,” Mr Hay added.
A few days after Summers’ death, her family gathered to celebrate her birthday by lighting candles on a small heart-shaped birthday cake.
In March, Hamel was reunited with his late wife via a robotic replica of the late actress created by Realbotix Corp in partnership with Hollo.AI.
The former “Anniversary Game” game show host reportedly worked with Realbotix to create a “digital twin” of Summers that will allow them to reminisce about their special moments as a couple.
Over the summer, Page Six exclusively reported that Hummel had moved on with Summers’ former “Hollywood Wives” co-star Joanna Cassidy.
The pair were photographed walking arm-in-arm before grabbing lunch at Broad Street Oyster Company in Malibu, California, in June.
