Computer Scientist Predicts Human Consciousness Can Be Uploaded to Computers Later This Year

Dr. Pratik Desai, predicts human character can appear on the computer thanks to AI. (photo: twitter @akashmjn)

JAKARTA - A computer scientist encourages people to record their parents and loved ones because he predicts that human consciousness could be uploaded to computers this year.

Dr. Pratik Desai, who has founded several AI startups in Silicon Valley, says that if people have enough video and voice recordings of their loved ones, there is a "100 percent chance their" relatives "live with you forever."

Desai, who has created his own ChatGPT-like system, wrote on Twitter: 'This should even be possible by the end of the year.'

Many scientists believe that the rapid advances in AI, led by ChatGPT, are poised to usher in a new golden era for technology.

However, experts are divided on this technology - Elon Musk and more than 1.000 other technology leaders are asking to stop the development of AI technology, fearing that it could destroy humanity.

On the other hand, other experts like Bill Gates, believe that AI will improve our lives. It seems that other experts also agree that AI technology will help us live forever.

Desai is on Gates' side, believing that we can recreate dead people as living avatars inside computers.

The process will involve digitizing videos, voice recordings, documents and photos of the person, then feeding them into an AI system that learns everything about the individual.

Users can then design specific avatars that look and act like their living relatives once did. ChatGPT progress has advanced one of the companies working on virtual humans.

A project called Live Forever creates a VR robot from a person with the same speech and behavior as the person it was assigned to replicate.

Artur Sychov, founder of Live Forever, told Motherboard in 2022 that he predicts the technology will be out within five years, but due to new advances in AI, he expects it to be short.

"We can take this data and apply AI to it and create you as an avatar on your land or in your NFT world, and people will be able to come and talk to you," Sychov told Motherboard, which was also quoted by the Daily Mail.

'You will meet that person. And maybe for the first 10 minutes of talking to that person, you won't know it's actually an AI. That was the goal,' added Sychov.

Another AI company, DeepBrain AI, has created a memorial hall that allows people to reunite with their deceased in an immersive experience. The service, called Rememory, uses photos, videos and a seven-hour interview of the person while they were alive.

AI-powered virtual avatars are designed with deep learning technology to capture an individual's appearance and voice, displayed on a 400-inch screen.