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BLOOMINGTON, IN – In what administrators are calling both a technological milestone and a regrettable lapse in academic supervision, a team of Ivy Tech Community College students has unveiled an artificial intelligence model that digitally recreates the precise conditions of Elvis Presley’s death.

The semester-long project, titled “The Final Movement: A Nueral Reconstruction of the King’s Last Moments,” was the capstone effort of students in the college’s Applied Artificial Intelligence and Mortuary Science programs. Using open-source machine learning software and medical data from 1977, the group claims to have achieved the most accurate Elvis death simulation ever rendered.

Lead instructor Dr. Cheryl Kline said the project sought to “merge compassion with computation.”

“Our model doesn’t just predict cardiac arrest,” Kline explained. “It captures the rhythm, the panic, and the sheer torque of a performer facing one final encore.”

During Tuesday’s student showcase, the program displayed a holographic visualization of the simulation. Witnesses described the event as deeply moving and technically impressive until it froze mid-grimace. The hologram reportedly looped for twelve minutes while faculty debated whether to pull the plug or let it “run its natural course.”

According to the student team’s technical abstract, the AI incorporated historical autopsy notes, voice stress analysis from Presley’s final interviews, and a dataset of over 2,000 celebrity diets.

“We fed it everything from tabloid rumors to bathroom tile density,” said Tyler Fogle, a student on the project. “The neural net just knew when it was time.”

Ivy Tech administrators were quick to distance the college from the project, noting that it was never formally approved under any curriculum known to the State of Indiana.

“We support innovation,” said interim dean Marla Speers. “But not when it involves recreating the private collapse of an American icon with school property and resources.”

The Presley Estate has reportedly issued a cease-and-desist letter, describing the project as “AI necromancy.” Meanwhile, the team has been invited to present at next month’s Midwest Tech & Mortality Conference in Terre Haute, assuming they can retool the visuals for a PG audience.