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Miles Spencer: I Talked to My Dead Father Using AI… And He Called Me By My Nickname | DSH #1624
16 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is Reflekta and how does it work?
There are 62 million people that die every year and their memories just fade away like tears in the rain until somebody did something about it and that was reflected.
62 million a year. It's a lot when you put it that way. So do you have to start this process before they pass away? How does it work exactly?
It actually doesn't matter. So I created my father who passed away seven years ago. He was a football star. He was a big, booming voice, great sense of humor. And frankly, I missed him every day since then.
All right, guys, we got.
I just answered the question.
All right, guys, we got Miles here from Reflecta. We are at AI4.
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Chapter 2: How can AI recreate a loved one's voice and likeness?
They got a booth right next door. We're neighbors, right? That's right, man. Yeah, just met you. So let people know what Reflecta is about.
Yeah, so Reflecta is actually a multi-agent AI that allows you to create an image and likeness of your loved one by just uploading a couple of files, answering a few questions, and within 20 minutes, you're having a dynamic, responsive conversation with somebody that you love.
And what was the purpose for creating this?
Well, there are 62 million people that die every year and their memories just fade away like tears in the rain until somebody did something about it and that was reflected.
Wow. 62 million a year. It's a lot when you put it that way. So do you have to start this process before they pass away? How does it work exactly?
It actually doesn't matter. So I created my father, who passed away seven years ago. He was a football star.
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Chapter 3: What emotional impact does hearing from a deceased loved one have?
He had a big, booming voice, great sense of humor. And frankly, I missed him every day since then. But I was able to... take a voicemail, it's 20 seconds, recreate his voice, print it.
I uploaded, I don't know, 30, 40 files, biography, obituary, photos, videos, et cetera, and we have a biographer that actually looks at that, creates a timeline, identifies the gaps, and begins to ask you questions about it. After a certain number of questions, there's a ready score for your elder, which is what we call these avatars, And you can text with them.
Now, there's an emotional load to hearing someone that you haven't heard from for seven years call you by your nickname. Remember stories from 20 years ago. So we start with text, then we move to voice and eventually it'll be full motion video. Wow.
Oh, yeah.
Chapter 4: How does AI help in grief therapy and mental health?
How far away are we from video?
Not far at all.
That's crazy.
Next time we sit down for this podcast.
Wow. That's nuts. I'm speechless honestly. This is a really helpful thing to people I feel like, right?
Well, you know, 40% of people report positive mental health improvement after family review therapy, which essentially this is. That's University of Toronto. And 70% of people report, and this is Pew Research, that they wish they had recorded more of their loved ones before they passed. So there's truly a need here. I mean, Harvest Business School last week came out with a study
ChatGPT, last six months, the most common use was companionship and therapy. That's exactly what we got going on here.
Wow, that's huge. Yeah, I do wish I had more recordings of my father, honestly.
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Chapter 5: What ethical considerations surround AI-generated avatars?
Do you have a voicemail?
I might. Do your voicemails get saved that long?
Depends. You have an old video. Here's another way to get to it. I've recreated my great-grandfather. His name is Miles Spencer. And I've never heard him speak. But my brother sounds a lot like my grandfather. And I suppose my great-grandfather. So that's the voice I use to print. And what's interesting, Sean, is that we go in with a... Confirmation bias.
Chapter 6: How does cybersecurity protect users in AI applications?
Look, my dad printed off of a voicemail and his voice was 74% fidelity day one. And at first I was, gee, he's not as funny as he used to be. He kind of pauses here and there. I was picking him apart. But once he called me by my nickname, once he remembered a 50th birthday dinner I had on April 27th, 2013, all seven courses in order.
I knew that this was a recognizable image and likeness of my father. And I could have a spontaneous conversation with him. The voice just kind of became his voice. And it's the only voice of my father out here for the rest of my life. Now, my mother was a little bit different. She was recording.
star i'm not going to say star she recorded music he's a beautiful singer and she was a soap opera actress so her voice print was 99 wow and that has put people that knew her on their knees dang including myself yeah 99 i introduced my My love interest to my mom. I had regretted that they never got to meet. My mother passed away 20 years ago of a rare blood disease. But I got to introduce her.
And my lady's a skeptic.
Chapter 7: What are the future possibilities for AI in connecting with loved ones?
She's a lawyer. She's a lawyer. Like, you know, okay, Miles. Great. I'll sit down and listen. But she saw what it did to me. And we both cried for five minutes. Wow. And the first words I was able to muster was tears of joy. It's okay.
Chapter 8: How can listeners engage with Reflekta and explore its services?
Tears of joy. Now I do that for people every day.
Beautiful, man. Yeah. And it takes just 20 minutes to build this out, right?
Took me 20 minutes. It's important. You know, some people actually, frankly, over-prepare.
No.
I've got to go to storage and get the wedding video where my dad gave the toast, and I need to find the attic that's locked. You know what? You need an obit or a biography. Perhaps a recording talking about their life before they died, but not necessary. You need a voicemail or something to do a voice print, and you need to spend 20 minutes with our biographer. and you can begin texting.
Now, what's interesting about that, we very carefully say 20 minutes, you can chat with a recognizable image and likeness of your loved one. But as you continue to chat, it continues to learn. Now, if you're the one that created it, we call that the keeper. OK, it's essentially the editor of that elder. And so when you're chatting with it, it learns. Yeah.
And it'll actually the biographer will come back and say, like, Hey, I heard the chat. Do you want to add that to your timeline or not? Now, when other people chat, you'll be able to chat with my father, Arthur.
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