Sci-fi loves a good brain upload plot.
A 1998 episode of “The X-Files” features a computer genius who uploads herself to cyberspace.
“San Junipero,” a 2016 episode of “Black Mirror,” follows 2 women falling in love in a digital afterlife.
But is an IRL possible?
Artur Sychov, founder of the Somnium Space metaverse, created a feature called "Live Forever".
It is important to collect data when you are in VR - how to move and talk - and create your AI avatar. Your avatar can communicate with others even if you die.
Sychov tells Vice that he was inspired by his sick father and the realization that his children will never know their grandfather. And he's not the only one trying to imitate a lover through AI:
Yes, Only Virtual (YOV) founder Justin Harrison modeled a chat next to his mother based on data that includes 2.8,000 pages of text messages. To create your own, it's $ 499 in advance, then ~ $ 40 / month.
The Gabriel Barcia-Colombo's 2015 exhibition at the Hereafter Institute in LA deals with the digital afterlife and includes a VR simulation of his late grandfather.
The clip of a South Korean woman who reunited with her daughter in VR became viral and sparked intense debate.
These avatars are normally created for the living and serve as a way to keep those of us lost. But can we really live with computers?
Neuroscientist Michael Graziano wrote for The Atlantic that such a brain scan could be achieved, but technology development would take decades.
And the same question remains: Is it you or a copy?