[ExI] The quick and easy path to uploading

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 at 00:05, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> To my mind, "uploading" implies a continuity of identity. I don't just want to die while watching another separate mind that has my memories and personality live forever in a computer. /I/ want to live forever in a computer.
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There are already companies engaged in creating facsimiles of deceased people.
See:
<https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/16/ai-company-lets-you-chat-with-your-dead-loved-ones-15781759/>
Quote:
HereAfter AI is one of a number of startups promising digital
immortality through chatbots, AI and even holograms like the ones of
Holocaust survivors’ stories. A Japanese project even envisions robots
that look and act like the dead.
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The chatbots use recorded speech to imitate the deceased person's speech.
The AI will continue to improve the imitation.


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