Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M

Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by sanoli on Monday January 27, 2014 @08:18AM (#7130137)

and does it matter? I mean, since it's a copy, to your biological "you", it's just no different as if they put some other random person in VR and told you it was you in there.

I find the 'upload your brain to a hard drive' thing silly unless they figure out how to have your biological consciousness seamlessly move to the VR, like it was taking some bus ride and ended up in this new place.

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by sanswork on Monday January 27, 2014 @12:12PM (#7131536)

In the old mans war books they cover that by having the old and new bodies staring at each other while they move the consciousness. So one minute you're staring at a new body then you're staring at both then gradually the vision of the new body fades out and you're left staring at your old body.

I think something similar is the only way you're going to get people to want to do this. Though whether or not that is possible is way beyond me.

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Re:Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind fo... by tripzilch on Sunday February 02, 2014 @04:45AM (#7165490)

Sounds like an idea. If I really had to.

I would still have a similar problem with "teleporters" (of the Star Trek kind), though.

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