Months after the death of James Earl Jones, the booming voice of Darth Vader, Fortnite players are having in-game conversations with the “Star Wars” villain about being a Jedi and his conflict with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Sometimes his responses have been witty: “I sense no connection to the force within you.” Others were comedic, with Darth Vader telling one curious player that lightsabers were weapons, “not gardening tools.”
Thank — or blame — artificial intelligence.
A few years before Jones died, he agreed to let AI learn from archival recordings of…