Joe Fier's son suffered severe brain injuries in a motorcycle accident and fell into a coma. Fier used AI to create a digital twin trained on his son's voice and videos, then played it back to him during recovery to encourage neural reconnection.
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A year ago, my son was in a catastrophic motorcycle accident. He ended up having the most severe brain injury that a human can have. They said he'd more than likely never speak again, and he'd be in a vegetative state. And we didn't want that as our prognosis. I mean, I'm not going to offend you. There was 20, 30 rips in his brain, in his brain stem, while he was in his coma, while he was in his vegetative state. We use the AI tools. We where he's an actor, took all of his audition tapes. We made a twin clone of him, and then I trained the clone to speak to him in his own voice and walk him back to us. So while he was in his coma, he would say, hey, Colt, this is you. You're going through a circumstance. You are in a bike accident. You're in a hospital right now, and here's what's going on. Your body parts are firing, great, but your brain is have some challenges. Here's what we want you to do. We want you to focus on reconnecting. And what we did is train it each and every day.