AI captures history as virtual biographer in new venture

One Manatee County entrepreneur finds the solution to help people capture life stories without costly ghost writers: AI.

  • By Jay Heater
  • | 5:00 a.m. October 24, 2024
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Lakewood Ranch's Mike O'Donnell has launched a virtual biographer that will help people preserve their life memories and defining moments.
Lakewood Ranch's Mike O'Donnell has launched a virtual biographer that will help people preserve their life memories and defining moments.
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If you ask Lakewood Ranch resident Mike O'Donnell, the greatest story ever told is — your own.

He and longtime business partner Anthony Phills came to that conclusion years ago, following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when the Pass Christian, Mississippi home of O'Donnell's parents, Audrey and Larry O'Donnell, was wiped out. That caused the loss of family movies, photo albums, records and personal memorabilia.

 

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