Matthew Lawrence wants to revive late Mrs. Doubtfire costar Robin Williams with AI: 'Do something...

&34;He's gotta be the voice of AI,&34; Lawrence declared of his late costar, who died in 2014. Matthew Lawrence wants to revive late Mrs. Doubtfire costar Robin

"He's gotta be the voice of AI," Lawrence declared of his late costar, who died in 2014.

Matthew Lawrence wants to revive late Mrs. Doubtfire costar Robin Williams with AI: 'Do something really special'

"He's gotta be the voice of AI," Lawrence declared of his late costar, who died in 2014.

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Matthew Lawrence, Lisa Jakub, and Robin Williams in 'Mrs. Doubtfire'. Credit:

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Move over, Siri and Alexa. Matthew Lawrence believes that his late *Mrs. Doubtfire *costar Robin Williams should be the next "voice of AI." **

The actor, who played one of the children nannied by Williams' titular Mrs. Doubtfire in the 1993 comedy, tells ** that he would love to use artificial intelligence to "do something really special" with the late comedian's voice. Williams died by suicide at 63 in 2014.**

"I would love — now, obviously, with the respect and with the okay from his family — but I would love to do something really special with his voice because I know for a generation, that voice is just so iconic," Lawrence shares in EW's Comic-Con video suite on Friday.

"It's not just the fact that I knew him and worked with him and so it's in my head — it's in everybody's head. And it would be so cool."

Matthew Lawrence and Robin Williams.

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The idea came to Lawrence after watching one of Williams' old commercials and realizing that it contained some interesting present-day parallels. **

"It's kinda like this very contemporary, modern, almost sort of foreshadowing of what's going on commercial that he did, where he did this computerized voiceover," he explains. "And it always stuck with me. And then, during his passing, with the AI coming out, I'm like, 'Man, he's gotta be the voice of A.I. He's gotta be the voice in something.' So yeah, I would love to do that."

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The uses for the program are potentially endless, including having Williams become the helpful voice giving you driving directions on your phone. "It would be Robin!" Lawrence cheers. "It would be so cool. I'm telling you."

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Lawrence previously opened up about his desire to make an A.I. version of Williams' voice while speaking with EW last April. **

"Man, it's a real shame that he's not with us," he said at the time. "There's not a day that goes by that I don't hear his voice. I even wish, now with artificial intelligence, I kind of want to go to his family and be like, 'Would you guys allow me to use his voice for some sort of creative expression? Because I hear it every day, in my head.'"**

Directed by Chris Columbus, *Mrs. Doubtfire* follows voice actor Daniel Hillard (Williams) as he concocts a kooky plan to disguise himself as the elderly housekeeper Mrs. Doubtfire in order to spend time with his children.

Robin Williams and Matthew Lawrence in 'Mrs. Doubtfire'.

20th Century Fox

When speaking with EW in April, Lawrence explained that Williams taught him two really important life lessons during the film's production: the "type of compassion you need to have for people," and how you "don't judge until you walk in someone else's shoes."**

He continued, "He really quantified what it was to be a real artist for me in the sense that he was definitely, and I worked with some great people, and he was definitely the most brilliant artist I've ever worked with. But on top of that, he had the compassion, he had the humility, and he also had these things that he struggled with."

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