The son of Sir Michael Parkinson has said a new podcast using artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the talk show host’s voice will not be “bringing my father back”. Michael “Mike” Parkinson Jr, said his father, who died at the age of 88 last year, liked the idea of using technology to interview someone who had died. Speaking on ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB), he said: “Really, what this came from was, was an extension of the work I’ve done with my dad, which essentially is looking after the archive, giving it more life after he’s gone, and also just paying tribute to his legacy.
” We never thought we’d hear Michael Parkinson again – but Artificial Intelligence is changing all that. Sir Michael Parkinson’s son has defended the use of AI to recreate the voice of the late chat show host for a new interview podcast series. pic.
twitter.com/bTTtSc2YIm — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) October 29, 2024 He continued: “I mean, he spent most of his time with me, looking at the archive, using the archive in various different ways. “He would do live shows and we would write books based on the archive.
“We would do documentaries based on the archive. He was fascinated by the art of interviewing. “He basically used to have a conversation with me saying, ‘I wish there was the technology which could bring back people I never had a chance to interview’.
“He would have loved to have brought back Frank Sinatra.” Sir Michael Parkinson died aged 88 in .