Technology makes people immortal

Technological achievements such as artificial intelligence or brain-computer interface are gradually revealing the mystery leading to human immortality …
“This is not just a game, this is our future”. In the opening chapter of Detroit: Become a Human, Chloe – the first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing test – speaks to the gamer sitting in front of the screen seriously.

Detroit’s explanation of the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) differs from reality. But basically artificial intelligence is still understood as a science fiction concept, a robot or a thinking machine. In fact, artificial intelligence is a complex program or algorithm, often focusing on machine learning standards. There is a funny story in the AI ​​science community: “Once something is realized with artificial intelligence, people will no longer call it artificial intelligence.” Indeed, with the advent of Siri and Duplex, linguistic AI applications, people are no longer using Turing Test to test the method of operation and the intelligence level of machine learning. Of course, many people still believe that machines cannot pass the Turing Test because it cannot understand human emotions through language. After all, humans themselves cannot fully understand how the brain works, of course they cannot give exact definitions of a “human-like” machine or set scientific standards. to measure it. And now, when artificial intelligence is bringing people closer to immortal life, humanity’s vision is once again expanding. Artificial intelligence paves the way to immortality In February 2011, the Avatar Project, also known as the Longevity Project, was started with the sponsorship of Russian media tycoon Dmitry Itskov. This is a project that creates immortality by transferring all of human intelligence, consciousness, and memory into computers, helping people get out of their physical form and exist in an Internet network in the form of waves. electronic. “For the next 30 years, I will make sure we can all live forever. I believe 100% of it will happen ”, the Russian billionaire confirmed. According to the roadmap, the Avatar Project will advance to phase 4 in 2045, when humans can give up their flesh and bones to take over the machine body and begin an immortal life with robots capable of change. shape according to thought. The year 2045 is also the time when artificial intelligence brings human immortality as predicted by the American inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil. He was the one who accurately predicted when computers would defeat the chess champion in 1997. Meanwhile, futurist Dr. Ian Pearson said that “humans will be immortal by year. 2060 ”. Whether it is the year 2045 or 2060 as predicted by the scientists, all confirmed that at some point, humans can completely connect their thoughts with the machine world, and we will live well in the cloud thanks to Digital immortality. The purpose is similar to the Avatar Project, but billionaire Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, developed by Neuralink, does not put a lot of time on. This is a neural technology company founded in 2016, headquartered in San Francisco (USA), with specialization in brain-computer interface (BMI) development. Once there were many negative comments about artificial intelligence, even considering it a threat to humanity, Elon Musk finally set Neuralink for the long-term goal of achieving “symbiosis with human intelligence. create “. Currently, this brain-computer interface has gone beyond the laboratory facility and initially recognizing achievements for polio patients. In Neuralink’s latest experiment, the video of a monkey playing a game after being implanted in a brain chip caused shock in public opinion. Not only Avatar and brain-computer interface have brought positive results, there are a series of other projects that have also been promoted to quickly reveal the mysterious curtain of human immortality. In particular, artificial intelligence is still the focus of research and is also the most controversial area. “Life in the cloud” goes hand in hand with real life While researchers are still making proposals to legalize commercial applications of artificial intelligence, especially clones that possess human consciousness based on ethical standards, there are still many ideas. Pessimism about the future of AI. There is even an opinion that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity when out of control. However, “artificial intelligence not only does not destroy people but also gives people immortality” – said Baidu founder Ly Ngan Hoanh at the World Internet Conference in 2019. This is also is the view that has received the support of many scientists, especially the futurists. They believe that artificial intelligence will help people live forever thanks to digital immortality. Digital immortality is a new concept that has emerged in the past few decades and is defined as “the extension of active / passive digital existence after death”. This means that advanced knowledge management, AI, data mining, machine-to-machine communication with the function of presence after death, are now available in a number of projects specializing in creating characters. digital immortality. Typically Avatar, with the illustrated version of the user or the person’s personality in 2D or 3D form, possesses the ability to “think” and act according to the recorded data. These avatars are capable of constantly learning, developing and interacting autonomously if they still exist in the virtual world. This form closely resembles Romanbot, part of a realm of “augmented eternity” in the way that the human mind can be downloaded, recreated, and transformed into other forms. “Eventually the mind will become information that can move, just like files can move from device to device and live in the cloud,” said Michael Graziano, professor of psychology and the sciences. says at Princeton University. According to Alex Zhavoronkov (CEO Insilico Medicine), that is when artificial intelligence saves us from death instead of leading to a bizarre apocalypse. In fact, the AI ​​hub’s origins can be traced back to the 1968 anti-commercialization rebellion according to the data in Truls Unholt’s Vagant, while immortality in the “virtual world” goes hand in hand with the world. It is the destination that people will reach in the near future. Up to the present time, is the time to change our thinking about human union with technology and start thinking as a co-consciousness, instead of perpetuating the “mind” as Ideas by Stephen Hawking and Milton Friedman. As Robert Hertz wrote in 1907, we have two lives – one living in nature, one living in culture. Now, humanity will have one more life, an immortal life thanks to artificial intelligence technology, and in the words of future doctor Micho Kaku, it is just a “matter of time”.