AI is resurrecting the voices of dead famous people

The Maya Angelou Forever Stamp is unveiled on April 7, 2015, at a ceremony at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC. Angelou is one of several deceased celebrities whose voice is being synthesized for AI. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers.  Fortunately for the rest of the world, Brod largely ignored what Kafka had said, which is why today we have works like The Castle and The Trial, not to mention the word “Kafkaesque.” But Kafka’s s