By Diana
Buraka
Today, on the day of my annual birthday reincarnation, I was contemplating
about an eternal immortality… not that I am excited about ‘still rocking it’ as
an ancient and frail Granny, but who would resist the prospect of a wise mind
in an everlasting fit body.
‘If Youth knew, if Age could…’ In Freudian times it was not possible to combine the wisdom of the Old with the drive of the Young. But this may change soon!
‘If Youth knew, if Age could…’ In Freudian times it was not possible to combine the wisdom of the Old with the drive of the Young. But this may change soon!
On my birthday, officially becoming one year wiser, I have
discovered that some Artificial Intelligence researchers at MIT, are not far
from limiting our human mortality problem merely to ‘a hardware problem’… Meaning, you can continue using your life-long
accumulated knowledge and experience even after your death!
But what about my body, you would ask…? Well…. this aspect still hasn’t been resolved yet.
But what about my body, you would ask…? Well…. this aspect still hasn’t been resolved yet.
So, keep on working-out and training your abs, my friends, because for now your
mind is able to continue its perpetual life only as an AI in a computer cloud,
basically, in the absence of your current hot ‘body-line’!
I am just hoping, my everlasting blonde brainy AI will end up in a hedonistic computer cloud, where adventurous and naughty thoughts are not censored by an antivirus software!
I am just hoping, my everlasting blonde brainy AI will end up in a hedonistic computer cloud, where adventurous and naughty thoughts are not censored by an antivirus software!
Sounds pretty outlandish to me… even comparing it to numerous ultra-innovative
start-up ideas I have featured while covering the Start Global Summit 2018 in
Switzerland, a couple of weeks ago.
Life
beyond death, and how it works:
Nectome is an American company, founded in 2016 by AI researchers
at MIT, which promises a path to immortality. There is a downside… it has to
kill you to upload your brain to the cloud. Immortality, induced by a process
guaranteed to end life, as you know it.
Never say never… who knows, some daredevil venture capitalists,
without any capital, might be even prepared to complete the first funding round
donating their own brains…
Nectome
offers to preserve your brain forever.
The process starts with an assisted suicide: the arteries of a
terminally ill yet still living person are flooded with embalming fluid,
converting brain tissue into a map of neurons. From these, Nectome promises to
upload your memories and consciousness.
Even though, Nectome does not have a functioning method yet, it
hopes to enable an interaction between the uploaded brain and the external
world.
And so, once upon a time, when our minds can be uploaded and then
resurrected to live indefinitely within a computer simulation, the predictions
of futurologist Ray Kurzweil about ‘The Age of Intelligent Machines’ will
become reality: the moment when Artificial Intelligence will actually be able to
outsmart human beings!
Carpe diem, enjoy the moment while it is still possible
to be ‘The Smartest Guy in the Room’ and keep on working on your beach-body six-pack
while it still matters!
