AI-aided virtual conversations with WWII vets are latest feature at New Orleans museum

An interactive exhibit opening Wednesday at the National WWII Museum uses artificial intelligence to let visitors hold virtual conversations with images of veterans, including a Medal of Honor winner who died in 2022. Voices From the Front also enables visitors to the New Orleans museum to ask questions of war-era home front heroes and supporters of the U.S. war effort — including a military nurse, an aircraft factory worker, and a dancer who performed at USO shows. Olin Pickens, a 102-year-old war veteran featured in the project, got a chance Wednesday to chat with his video-recorded twin at the museum. He said: “I'm making history.”