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For personalities like his, what comes to my mind is some episodes of Star Trek - TNG, where someone walks into the Holodeck and asks the Computer to "create th

For personalities like his, what comes to my mind is some episodes of Star Trek - TNG, where someone walks into the Holodeck and asks the Computer to "create the persona of person X based on their writings, psychological profile, image from photographs, etc." and the Holodeck pulls together an Einstein, (or Hawking on the card playing scene) and then you get to interact with that persona. I expect (wish) that with AI, VR, LLM (and other similar acronyms), in my lifetime we will be able to do the same. I can only imagine having a coffee with some personalities (Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Einstein, Alice Cooper, et al) and being taught about their lives, beliefs, absorbing wisdom, etc.

krapp 3y ago
>I can only imagine having a coffee with some personalities (Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Einstein, Alice Cooper, et al) and being taught about their lives, beliefs, absorbing wisdom, etc. You wouldn't be having coffee with them, you would be having coffee with an AI generated facsimile, operating under the assumption that all available information on the web is factually accurate, and that somehow the whole is equal to, or greater than, the sum of its parts. They wouldn't be able to tell you anything new, or offer any real insight into the life or thoughts of the actual person they represent. There is no wisdom for you to absorb that doesn't come from external sources. It's all fake. Hollow. You'd be better off just reading the things they wrote, or a biography about their lives than letting the cancer of hyperreality spread even further than it has.