Speaking to the Dead?

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Here's an interesting twist on the dream of uploading consciousness into an immortal, silicon-based brain: suppose we were to study your thought and speech patterns, and upload a relatively primitive SIMULATION of you -- how you speak, what you think, etc. That way, future generations could have a one-way conversation with "you," asking questions and receiving answers in your voice, in language and thoughts assembled from how you actually speak and feel. Is this, in fact, a form of Speaking to the Dead? Join our elite squad of anti-elitists by becoming a Citizen Producer today: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Who wants to live forever? The wise philosopher, Freddie Mercury, wants asked, or at least talk to your kids, kind of from beyond the grave.
0:07.9	Hey, everybody. I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Right Angle, brought to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.
0:14.4	Gentlemen, I came across the story today in popular mechanics about story files, and this is one of those so-called AI technologies. Popular mechanics
0:24.0	build it as immortality, but it's not that what this particular so-called AI does is it asks
0:30.7	you a series of questions and generates an artificial you that is able to respond to questions after your death so that the families
0:41.8	might have a chance to sort of reacquaint themselves with you. And the way the founder of this
0:46.2	thing, Stephen Smith describes it, he says that you might think your first date with grandma
0:52.7	in 1962 is of no interest to anybody whatsoever,
0:56.3	but I can tell you to your great-grandchild, it's very interesting.
1:00.5	Scott, do you think Mr. Smith here is kind of overselling our grandchildren's and great-grandchildren's
1:06.4	willingness to sit down and ask us questions and listen to our stories?
1:10.9	You know, this is interesting because I actually did this a number of years ago with my
1:15.7	grandfather, and this was back when, like, videotape was videotape.
1:21.1	And so I set up a camera on a tripod, and I got basically the next generation below me, my kids and my brother's kids,
1:30.3	and they all sat on the floor and most of them were pretty young and pop sat on this chair
1:36.3	next to this light and I just pointed the camera at him and then let the kids ask questions of
1:41.8	him. And actually they really enjoyed that. Now, I don't know if a
1:46.1	single one of them is even aware that I took that video and posted it to YouTube. And you can now
1:53.2	see the whole thing there on YouTube of his responses. But most of their questions were things
1:59.8	like, well, what was it like growing up
2:02.1	during the Great Depression? And what was it like when you were a little kid living on a farm?
2:06.7	And what was it like, you know, being in World War II? And they seem really fascinated by that.
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