A computer scientist claims humans will live on digitally by the end of this year Excerpt A computer scientist is urging the world to record their elderly parents and loved ones as he predicts consciousness could be uploaded onto a computer this year. Dr Pratik Desai, who has founded multiple Silicon Valley AI startups, said that if people have enough video and voice recorders of their loved ones, there is a '100 percent chance' of relatives 'living with you forever.' Desai, who has created his own ChatGPT-like system, wrote on Twitter: 'This should be even possible by end of the year.' Many scientists believe the rapid advancements in AI, which ChatGPT is spearheading, are poised to usher in a new golden era for technology. However, the world's greatest minds[kek] are split on the technology - Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders are calling for a pause, warning it could destroy humanity. On the other side are other experts, like Bill Gates, who believe AI will improve our lives - and it seems other experts are on board with the idea it will help us live on forever. Desai is on the side of Gates, believing we can recreate our dead loved ones as avatars living in a computer. The process would include digitizing videos, voice recordings, documents and photos of the person, then fed to an AI system that learns everything it can about the individual. Desai did not provide many details about his idea of the technology, but former Google Engineer Ray Kurzweil is also working on a digital afterlife for humans - specifically to resurrect his father. The scientist continued to explain that his digital father would undergo a Turing Test, which is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. 'If an entity passes the Turing test, let alone a specific person, that person is conscious,' Kurzweil said. Along with uploading memories from the dead, Kurzweil also predicts that humans will reach immortality in just eight years.
