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In the future, people will only be dead for a short moment, then a Facebook AI will take over and keep on posting and replying, generating new photos and liking
by elcapitan 11y ago
In the future, people will only be dead for a short moment, then a Facebook AI will take over and keep on posting and replying, generating new photos and liking your posts.
- scholia 11y agoOr even without Facebook. From the linked BBC story: Consider a robot that was commissioned by the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt, called Bina 48. The robot is almost identical in appearance to Rothblatt’s wife, and contains a database of her speech and memories. Rothblatt, author of Virtually Human and the CEO of United Therapeutics, is a transhumanist whose motto is "death is optional". Rothblatt foresees a near-future world in which the dead can be reanimated thanks to mind clone software that can allow avatars to think and respond and be in an eerily similar way to those they’re cloning.
- Aleman360 11y agoReal life Black Mirror