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old-dirty-olorin t1_jdnd5n7 wrote

What you are asking for is not possible. Not at least in a truly emotionally satisfying way. Any data you input is going to be skewed to your perspective. Not the true person :(

This tech is not far off though.

Here's how it will work, at first most likely.

An App. AI driven. Installed on all smart devices

  • Parents install it over the childs device, they grow up with it.
  • It monitors all interactions and sits in the background for as long as they want it.
  • Maybe even sensors in the childs room. Listening to mannerisms and patterns
  • As an independent adult participation becomes a matter of choice
  • The longer you use it the more the accurate the model becomes.

This is how to store somesones "likeness" but nothing will ever replace the original.

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clearlylacking t1_jdoome3 wrote

I have given some serious thought to wearing a mic at all times and recording all my social interactions just for this purpose.

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FC4945 OP t1_jee3cv7 wrote

That's an interesting idea. I need to record my mother more often, do more questions and answers with her too.

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mskogly t1_jdq5wpp wrote

The humanoid robot in Klara and the sun is a bit like that. It spends alot of time interacting and learning from a (sick) child, and the goal is that thw robot takes over if the kid dies.

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czmax t1_jdsvsrf wrote

I agree. This is how it will happen.

We’ll see if first in famous reality tv folks. Someday soon an influencer or Hollywood star will have enough on video of themselves, and money, that somebody will try it “for” or “on” them (depending on the contract).

I think it’ll take substantial 24/7 logs to create anything better than an “uncanny valley” version of somebody. Which is why it’ll start w actors and famous folks people want to see in more roles or “meet”.

One of the first will be an Elvis AI that manages your Vegas vacation.

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FC4945 OP t1_je79a2z wrote

I read "Virtually Human: The Promise--And the Peril--of Digital Immortality" Martine A. Rothblatt recently and it's changed my perspective on how we understand another person as well as "who I am" and what the boundaries of that is person-ness is. I honestly don't think we ever really know another person completely. We have our perception of someone but we're not able to knw what goes on inside someone else's mind, the totality of their thoughts and experiences. From that perspective, I think it's possible to recreate a person that will satisfy our emotional needs and seem to us very much like the original. There's a Buddhist quote that I like which relates to this: I am not what you think I am, you are what you think I am."

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