posted on Feb, 11 2014 @ 11:31 AM link ** The title is from the article. Its not mine. Okay ... If Im understanding this correctly ... this start up company is building a kind of AI -Artificial Intelligence - based upon the information gleaned about dead people. This A.I. is then available to family members to chat with. The AI takes into account the dead persons personality. The personality is built by taking information from the dead persons social network sites and from chat forums and emails etc etc. I would imagine the company could build an AI of people long dead before modern technology, if that person left behind information. Famous people like Lincoln or Jefferson or Hitler .... imagine the possibilities. Its not really skyping with the dead. There is no direct communication with the actual entity. Well ... that actually may not be true. That could be a discussion for the metaphysics forum. If you build it, they will come ... maybe if you invite an entity by building an AI for them, theyll possess it. I know the science folks will scoff at that, but the metaphysics folks will stop and think about it. So I bring that up for discussion as well. Anyways ... read on ... Service Lets You Video Chat With Dead People A new startup from MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program is offering eternal life via the virtual world. The service, called Eterni.me, has designed a way to digitally reconstruct a person’s personality after they die so that the dearly departed are able to “communicate” from beyond the grave. To get started, users must provide the service with access to online activities like chat logs, social-network accounts, photos and emails. Gleaned information is then used to stitch together a digital portrait and avatar that’s capable of communicating with friends and loved one’s after a person dies. “Eterni.me collects almost everything that you create during your lifetime, and processes this huge amount of information using complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms,” the Web site explains. “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. It’s like a Skype chat from the past.” So would you want to skype with an AI of your dead grandmother? Or perhaps George Washington? How about HItler? Or maybe Jesus? Buddah? Im thinking that a lot of what youd hear from the dead person would be personal interpretations from whoever was designing that particular AI. A hard core republican might skew a JFK AI personality ... or a hard core democrat might try to make Reagan into something he really wasnt ... or a racist might interject his/her own issues into the personality .. that kind of thing. Even if they dont mean to. I might talk to someone just as a curiosity thing. But its really creepy. And I do subscribe to the metaphysical so Id be wondering about what entities Id be inviting into the program.
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