Alan Hamel admits he can’t tell where Suzanne Somers ends and her AI clone begins, sparking shock and fascination.NN
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Alan Hamel said he “can’t tell the difference” between his late wife, Suzanne Somers, and her new AI clone, which the TV host shared a demo of at a conference earlier this year.
“Obviously, Suzanne was greatly loved, not only by her family, but by millions of people. One of the projects that we have coming up is a really interesting project, the Suzanne AI Twin,” Hamel told People, adding that the project is “perfect.”
“It was Suzanne,” he said of the AI clone. “And I asked her a few questions and she answered them, and it blew me and everybody else away.”
“When you look at the finished one next to the real Suzanne, you can’t tell the difference. It’s amazing.”
Hamel, who was with Somers for more than five decades before her death in 2023, said that though he knows what the “Step by Step” alum’s real “face looks like,” he can’t tell her and the AI robot apart.
“I really can’t tell which one is the real and which one is the AI,” he told the outlet.
The former “Alan Hamel Show” host, 89, got the AI robot’s speech and likeness as close as he could to his late wife’s by training it with Somers’ 27 books and hundreds of her interviews.
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Hamel said the extensive training will have the robot “really ready to be able to be asked any question at all and be able to answer it, because the answer will be within her.”
In October 2023, Page Six broke the news that Somers had passed away from breast cancer that had metastasized to her brain just one day before her 77th birthday.
The “Three’s Company” actress’s longtime publicist, R. Couri Hay, told us Somers died “peacefully at home in the early morning hours of Oct. 15” after surviving “an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years.”
“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband, Alan, her son, Bruce, and her immediate family,” Hay added.
Days after Somers’ death, her family gathered together 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 that was 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 Somers that was capable of recalling their special moments as a couple.
Over the summer, Page Six exclusively reported that Hamel had moved on with Somers’ former “Hollywood Wives” co-star Joanna Cassidy.
The pair was photographed walking arm in arm before grabbing lunch at Broad Street Oyster Company in Malibu, Calif., in June.
