Our Digital BreadCrumbs, and SecondLife via FaceBook Resurrection (click to read)
This brilliant video is a visualization (and a major but, appropriate *spoiler*) of the story in Memories with Maya.
(Video from: Tomscott.com)
It actually puts into perspective an excerpt from Chapter 6:
Over those next few days, I lost track of time itself. I didn’t answer any calls, I slept… had I slept? I don’t remember. I searched through the server for all the images I had of Maya. There were a lot of photos and some videos that were recorded by the wall mounted FishEye. Those had depth information that I needed. I was meticulous in how I pieced the different angles of Maya’s face together to create a 3D point cloud, a digital sculpture of her face. The avatars that Krish and I used for our digital surrogates were simple crude models. They were optimized for real time rendering on smart phones, with the features of our faces mapped as live video. That had sufficed for collaborative work. I wanted Maya to be… real.
… and
“Could we write a macro,” I said, “that allows Maya to log in and re-post one of these pictures at random?”
He thought about what I was asking, took a moment and then said, “It’s not a problem to implement. But did you think of the consequences?”
“What do you mean?”
“Her network of friends will get updates,” he said.
“Caption the pictures as posted by me.”
The next morning I woke to a status update of a new picture posted by Maya. I was tagged in it. Below the picture it read: “It’s a new day. Let’s make new memories. Posted by @Dan, for Maya.” Krish had given the AI access to Maya’s social network via my laptop.
The Digital Bread Crumbs we leave around… & Digital Cryonics:
The following is an excerpt from a yet to be published essay I’ve written for ImmortalLife.info
So, how would Quantum Archeology techniques be applied to resurrect a
dead person? Every day we spend hours uploading our stream-ofconsciousness
to the “cloud”.Photos, videos, Instagrams, Facebook
status updates, tweets. All of this is data that can be and is being
mined by Deep Learning systems.
There’s no prize for guessing who the biggest investor and
investigator of Deep Learning is.
Quantum Archeology gets a real helping hand with all the digital
breadcrumbs we’re leaving around us in this century.
The question is: Is that enough information for us to Create a Mind?
