How Can Artificial Intelligence Immortalize Human Beings?

Would you want to live forever? Futurists say with AI, it’s possible to make humans immortal.

Computers will Continue Where You Left Off

Ray Kurzweil, a futurist who is currently working on the Google’s machine learning project predicts that by 2029, humans will be extending their lives considerably or even indefinitely.

He said we could enhance the human brain and give ourselves a “God-like” ability by implanting tiny robotics that connects to cloud-based computer networks.

Another futurist, Ian Pearson with 85% prediction accuracy record, predicts that in 2050, humans will achieve a kind of virtual immortality by saving themselves into computers. That means a person’s personality could be transferred to a computer and allowed to communicate with people in the future.

So after the death of the person, the computer which will be in the form of an avatar, could either continue to learn or remain static. It all depends on the programming.

More organizations are getting interested in this already.

Artificial Intelligence to Lead the Way

The National Science Foundation gave about half a million dollars to the Universities of Central Orlando and Illinois at Chicago to support researchers who are working to discover how they can use Artificial Intelligence, Computer Imaging, and Archiving to generate a duplicate version of real people.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who has been constantly in the news explaining how AI is going to destroy the world is even backing a brain-computer interface called Neuralink. This company is still in its earliest stage though and has very little public presence.

Neuralink is focused on creating devices that can be implanted into the human brain to allow humans improve their memory and to have a more direct interfacing with computing devices.

Musk told a crowd in Dubai, “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.” He added that “it’s mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output.”

While most people think this kind of brains exists only in science fictions, Elon Musk thinks we need to become cyborgs or risk being relevant.

More so, Gordon Bell and Jim Gray from Microsoft Research have been researching on how the information a person had ever heard can be retained and according to them, it’s already realistic.

Interestingly, it requires less than a terabyte of storage to store this information, that’s basically because there is need to have it in high quality. On the flip side, the speech and text recognition technologies are some of their biggest challenges

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