Not sure if scam or just vaporware

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 02/08/2014 at 10:33 • Filed to: None

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!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , says it can make you virtually immortal, by creating some kind of avatar of yourself. How?

By collecting almost everything that you create during your lifetime, and processes this huge amount of information using complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms.

Then it generates a virtual YOU, an avatar that emulates your personality and can interact with, and offer information and advice to your family and friends after you pass away .

Why can't try freezing themselves in a giant glacier, like normal people?

jariten1781 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 10:41

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I saw an interview with the founder of one of these companies. I'm not sure it was this one exactly, but it was one like it. What they did essentially was took all of your online posts from every thing (including private stuff you allowed them to access) as well as anything you sent them and made a chatbot that used your common phrases. That's pretty much it. The idea being that your friends and family could 'talk to you' after you were dead.

lightninglouie > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 10:47

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It's not a new idea.

Pitchblende > jariten1781 02/08/2014 at 10:49

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So, what you're telling me is that spambots might actually be people trying to communicate from beyond the grave? Run away! Spambots are net-zombies, they are here to eat your e-brains!

Evdor > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 10:53

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Isn't that an exact episode of Black Mirror?

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > jariten1781 02/08/2014 at 10:54

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What if your children or grand children would know more about you and your life? What if they would be more like you, think more like you?

Something tells you me that extreme conservatives will be all over this. Don't let those goddamn hippies and sex crazed, human rights supporting, commies take over the country, or I will haunt the shit out of you and your wife, who happens to be your sister, got that, son ?!?

RadioSilence > Evdor 02/08/2014 at 11:24

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Exactly what I thought of.

PS9 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 11:30

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They do it using technology that doesnt exist yet. They're time travelers.

Or bullshitters. Yeah, gonna go with that.

Balmut > Evdor 02/08/2014 at 11:30

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Also, Caprica...

Justin Young > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 11:50

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Autumnshroud > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 13:50

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So basically, when we leave they get all of our stuff?

Corpore Metal > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 15:34

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Vaporware.

Vogie > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 02/08/2014 at 22:26

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“I'm sorry, my responses are limited. You must ask the right questions.”

Let's be honest, it's not that far fetched. We already have, right now today:

companies like Cognea with their now-cancelled "My Cyber Twin" program, where you basically filled out miles and miles of questions to create a chatbot that was similar to you. (It's still around, but not open to public)

Cleverbot, which learns through interaction with masses.

Stylometry, which uses linguistic analysis to isolate who wrote documents released anonymously or with disputed-authorship... although right now it's most often used to check for plagarism in grading papers in higher education, and in psychological profiling.

Samantha West, the now-infamous robotic telemarketer.

The whole-person image-creation tools used in films such as Tron: Legacy, LOTR's Gollum, and holographic Tupac/Freddie Mercury.

Combine all of these things, as well as mountains of data we already freely give in social networks, comments, emails, texts, chats, recorded calls by Google-Voice as well as every call center ever, et cetera... That doesn't seem that out there. You can catch the gist of a personality, narrow a vernacular syntax, and intellectual ties, and extrapolate. For example, "I want to ask my late grandfather a question about finances" is easier to extrapolate information if you know if Grandpa followed Jim Cramer, Scott Patterson, or Dave Ramsey - Grandpa may not have actually ever written the answer himself, but you could make a convincing argument about what he would have said.

Tech Pundit and Internet President Leo Laporte has gone on record and stated that he believes that he, right now, could effectively be replaced completely by a digital version of himself - he's actively been on video from 1998 to the present, and personally records hours and hours of content each week as a large part of his TWIT.tv network - if someone would take the time to do so. He's joked that that is his dream, as he'll "always" be the face of the network.

So, yeah, I could see it. I would expect that it would be used first by the rich, and will slowly trickle down. Once this does exist, it'll be for the Donald Trumps and Steve Jobs of the world, not for Gramps or Steve from Accounting.