Saturday, July 22, 2023

IN the NEWS - MIT working down in Dr. Frankenstein's Basement

For the living know that they shall die: 
but the dead know not any thing.... 
Ecclesiastes 9:5
 
"Soon enough, artificial intelligence will allow us to construct a digital version of a dead human being
An MIT project on “Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities
....a “
virtual-immortality chatbot,” with which—with whom?—you could text back and forth
Call it UndeadGPT....the townspeople ought to have a say in what goes down in Dr. Frankenstein’s basement.
If a digital facsimile of your lost loved one is talking to you, are they truly present?
Is it closer to a home movie, or is it constantly becoming in a way we’d recognize as human? 
**It may even spawn a new concept: the right to remain dead."
Esquire