📞 inTouch: An AI That Calls Your Parents Every Day
inTouch—An AI service from a Czech startup can call your relatives for you for $29.90 a month. The founder and CEO of inTouch, financier Vassili le Moigne, is originally from France but has lived in Prague for many years and couldn't visit his aging mother regularly. "I needed the reassurance my 88-year-old mother was safe even on days when I couldn't call her," he says.
When signing up for the app, you provide details about your relative's interests, background, career, current lifestyle, and health concerns and select how often you'd like the calls to happen. With an AI-generated voice, the bot will call the family member according to the set schedule. The algorithms will also send notifications about whether a relative picked up the phone, a summary of the call, and an overview of their mood. The AI remembers all conversations and learns in the process, adjusting to the person's age and emotional and intellectual needs.
You can also exchange voice messages with your relatives through the app. The bot will read the messages out loud and then record the responses.
Some may be confused or even offended by the idea of delegating communication with parents to AI. But the elderly get used to talking to the bot pretty quickly, the inTouch founder insists, unlike younger relatives who subscribe to the service, who still might need some time to digest the concept.
"There's a feeling of guilt that sets in, because they feel like they're outsourcing their parents to artificial intelligence. But that's not the case at all. It's actually about supplementing the calls that the children will continue to make. But with InTouch, they'll have more information about their parents' health and mood," explains Vassili le Moigne.
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