Mind Uploading/Downloading
 

Are Hosts, Replicants, and Robot Clones Closer Than We Think?

"Judging by the last 10 years of movies and television, we’ve changed our minds on
the whole robot apocalypse thing. They’re no longer coming to annihilate us—probably
because we seem to be doing too good a job of that ourselves. No, now the robots are
here to deliver us from death entirely. From Westworld to its trashy Netflix cousin,
Altered Carbon; from Don Hertzfeldt’s quirky animated short World of Tomorrow to
Black Mirror; from Spike Jonze’s lovely 2013 meditation Her to the magnificently
terrible-looking new Keanu Reeves movie Replicas, which seems trapped in its own
version of afterlife—every film or show about AI is now about the promise of
immortality and how the machines might deliver it for us.

Blame Elon Musk, maybe, or perhaps our own seemingly dwindling prospects as a
human race, but the story we tell ourselves about technology seems to have
permanently changed. Here’s how the new story goes, and it’s told with alarming
consistency: After we die, the information in our brains will be preserved, uploaded to
a cloud, and then downloaded again, into a new body. After that, we will rub our eyes,
roll the crick out of our shoulders, maybe even get home in time for dinner. Death is
just another connection problem, a momentary hiccup in the endless scroll, and robots
are no longer the skeletal arm of the Terminator clutching our ankle; they are the
dangling claw in the old carnival game, lowering itself one by one to rescue us from
our overcrowded pit."

See:

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/...rror-westworld

Elon Musk Builds a Machine to Download Our Brain and Personalities

"What the wealthiest man in the world has in the boxes is likely to raise the hair of
more than one of his detractors. Above all, it risks raising ethical questions. The
billionaire says it will soon be possible to upload your brain abilities into humanoid
robots.

"Could you imagine that one day we would be able to download our human brain
capacity into an Optimus?", Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent
company, Axel Springer, asked Musk in a recent interview.

Optimus is a robot Tesla introduced in 2021.

"I think it is possible," Musk responded.

"Which would be a different way of eternal life, because we would download our
personalities into a bot," Döpfner continued."

See:

https://www.thestreet.com/technology...-personalities