Posted on 01/22/2021 1:11:30 PM PST by Red Badger
Microsoft has been granted a patent for technology that would “reanimate” the dead by re-creating them via social media posts, videos and private messages that could even be downloaded into a 3D lifelike model of the deceased.
Not creepy at all.
“The tech giant has raised the possibility of creating an AI-based chatbot that would be built upon the profile of a person, which includes their “images, voice data, social media posts, electronic messages,” among other types of personal information,” reports IGN. “It’s understood that the chatbot would then be able to simulate human conversation through voice commands and/or text chats.”
The patent explains that the chatbot could be a historical figure, a celebrity, a friend or relative or even a copy of “the user creating/training the chat bot.”
The patent is literally straight out of a Black Mirror episode, the dystopian series created by Charlie Brooker.
In an episode called Be Right Back, a young woman’s boyfriend called Ash is killed in a car accident but she decides to bring him back in the form of a technology which uses artificial intelligence to mimic her lover’s speech patterns, mannerisms and knowledge.
This virtual Ash is then downloaded into a synthetic body, but the woman struggles to accept it as a replacement for her actual boyfriend and ends up locking the android in an attic.
Transhumanist elitists have long dreamed of being able to achieve immortality by preserving their consciousness after death and uploading it to a computer.
In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that humans will be uploading their minds to computers by 2045 and that bodies will be replaced by machines before the end of the century.
“We’re going to become increasingly non-biological to the point where the non-biological part dominates and the biological part is not important any more,” said Kurzweil. “In fact the non-biological part – the machine part – will be so powerful it can completely model and understand the biological part. So even if that biological part went away it wouldn’t make any difference.”
“We’ll also have non-biological bodies – we can create bodies with nano technology, we can create virtual bodies and virtual reality in which the virtual reality will be as realistic as the actual reality. The virtual bodies will be as detailed and convincing as real bodies,” he added.
Elsewhere in the book, Kurzweil made it clear that such technology would only be available to wealthy elites and that the rest of humanity would likely become a slave class or be wiped out altogether.
The future is bright.
Well they already vote Democrat anyway so what’s the big deal?
I dream of Bill Gates dying of the virus he helped engineer.
Plan Nine from Microsoft.
whew, thank God I am one of the wealthy elite :)
Lemme guess, they will file trademark on YOUR social media existence
He’s nuttier than Howard Hughes, that’s for sure.
About time to see him stomping about in Klennex boxes and refusing to shake hands with people.
Microsoft, making the Unabomber look rational.
Have they ever read That Hideous Strength?
I believe the ultimate goal of this technology is to make sure that Biden actually looks and sounds alive. No public appearances, just a young sounding and acting Biden pontificating from the faux Oval Orifice.
Right out of the Caprica sci-fi series...
And he had power to give life into the image of the beast.....
Already in 2005 I sketched out a program for doing the non-3D part on internet forums -- Antimoon Forum archive. Who knows...I may be using it now. :-) Here's some of what I said:
...I'm working on a computer program that will automate the reading and searching too. Every day it will access the internet, go to the forums that I usually read and scan for topics. It will then automatically search the archived posts on my disk and post relevant responses to each topic. Once I've perfected the program, I myself won't need to read or write anything.
I plan to distribute copies of the program to others as well. Eventually I expect that all forum discussion will be conducted automatically by the computers themselves and without any human intervention. The computers will work 24-hours-a-day recycling posts. Being inanimate objects, they'll never get bored, and this process can go on indefinitely -- for thousands, maybe even millions of years. That's how long the "shelf life" will be...
[Next post] Note that my program catches terms like "shelf life" in the topic post [it was mentioned in the Antimoon thread], and shifts them to prominent places in my response -- e.g., my last sentence -- creating the illusion that I actually understood the original post and thought about an answer. :-)
I’d much prefer what I already have. Eternal LIFE in Jesus, and an eternal life adventure exploring/developing the universe in my glorified body, just like Jesus had on that first Easter Morning.....and still has at the right hand of the Father. What cheap, half-baked, clunky idea will Gates come up with next? All he needs is to repent and get right with God and he’ll HAVE the ultimate life.
I watched the episode of Black Mirror in the article. Creepy as all get up, but intriguing. Series played in 2011.
https://yesmovies.ag/movie/black-mirror-season-1-11651/3-1/watching.html
That may be our future...
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