[ExI] nondestructive uploading of sorts

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:37 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> >…Frankly, you’re next…****
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> We are a looooong long ways from true uploading.
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Agreed.

So now we have these computers with cameras, and they can read what we
> write and listen to what we say, taking digital samples of our voice as we
> talk on Skype and so forth.  We can imagine a kinda-sorta uploading where
> the computer imitates our style using our digitally recorded voices and our
> image on the screen.  Using only current technology, we might be able to
> rig something that feels like we are visiting with our digital selves.
> Clearly that is a form of nondestructive uploading in a very loose sense, a
> toy version of it anyway.
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That is precisely what Ray Kurzweil is working on at Google. It might not
be as far off as you think for this sort of toy.

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> So the more we learn, the dumber we get.  If we figure it out completely,
> then we may eventually discover what I have already begun to suspect: that
> we are stupid.
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Ding ding ding, give the man a cigar!

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> **I could imagine using the above toy with our parents and grandparents,
> so that after they are gone, we could have a better-than-nothing Eliza-ish
> “discussion” of sorts with their avatar.
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> Would that be cool or what?
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Google apparently thinks so.

-Kelly
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