Can you accept that after death the robot continues to achieve immortality with its own thoughts?
Since ancient times, "eternal life" has always been a topic of concern for human beings, but even if medicine has developed to this day, human beings have still not found a way to immortality.
But with the continuous development of science and technology, it seems that humans have mastered a new "method of immortality", that is, to copy your thoughts on robots, so that robots can live in this world forever with your thoughts!
Not long ago, a topic of "can you accept your deceased relatives to become a simulated robot" quickly rushed to the hot search and caused a fierce discussion. During the discussion, many people said that it was really difficult to give an answer to this question at present, but after thinking about it for a long time, most people still gave an unacceptable answer.
So, what do you think about this?
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Is the immortality of thought counted as immortality?
In fact, the topic of "immortality" mentioned above comes from a program called "Future New World", on which the famous host Jiang Changjian visited a simulation machine research company in Dalian.
In order to do this program, this Dalian simulation machine company specially produced a simulation robot that was almost the same as Jiang Changjian, and even Jiang Changjian himself could not believe that a person who touched the same as himself stood in front of him at that moment.
However, what Jiang Changjian did not expect was that the first sentence of this robot asked: "My old friend, do you want me to live in this world forever instead of you?" Like most people facing this problem for the first time, Jiang Changjian was silent at that moment, and raised his head to think for a long time, and countless pictures flashed in his mind, but he still did not get an answer.
In the end, Jiang Changjian still gave an answer: "Of course, I hope that you will live in this world forever instead of me, so that people who care about me will have the best memories of me, but you need to do more meaningful things instead of me that can give back to the society." ”
Judging from Jiang Changjian's remarks, the "eternal life" that Jiang Changjian believes in his heart is not physical immortality, but being able to obtain "eternal life" ideologically, and leaving his thoughts and actions to future generations can be regarded as a kind of true immortality.
Although, in the end, Jiang Changjian gave his own answer to the topic of "immortality" on the show. But after the show, Jiang Changjian still expressed his entanglement with this issue.
Especially when he learned that after he left the company, the bionic robot would be disposed of, Jiang Changjian expressed his thoughts at that time: "In fact, I did not want to leave it, but I did not want to destroy it the moment I left with it." ”
From Jiang Changjian's visit to the bionic enterprise in Dalian, it can be seen that in the face of the unknown topic of "immortality" in the future, human beings have shown a kind of excitement, expectation, but fear.
Indeed, when one no longer lives in this world, no one can imagine that there is another self who lives in the world for himself. At least for now, it's hard for many people to accept.
But from the perspective of the continuous development of science and technology, this kind of thing may soon be staged in real life in the future!
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Musk: In the future, most of them will inject ideas into robots to achieve immortality!
As the world's most prominent businessman and tech maniac, Musk has been working to inject the human mind into the study of robots.
Musk began working on brain-computer interfaces a few years ago, and has completed experiments on many animals, extracting information from animal neurons.
In a recent interview, Musk once again said that the future of copying data from human brains to robots is no longer far away. In the future, we can download those unique things, such as personality and memory, into the robot body, which will be a different way of immortality.
It is worth mentioning that at the AI Day in August last year, Musk announced that Tesla is about to launch a humanoid robot, which immediately aroused the attention of the public.
According to Musk at the time, Tesla chose to develop a humanoid robot because "basically in the future, manual labor will become an option." Because robots will "eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks" from our daily lives.
In a recent interview, Musk also revealed again that this prototype product called Optimus Prime will be completed by the end of this year and is ready to reach at least medium-scale mass production by the end of next year.
Although Musk has repeatedly stressed that the reason for creating this humanoid robot is to help people solve repetitive, boring or dangerous work, in this interview, Musk also proposed for the first time the possibility of developing this humanoid robot for more purposes in the future, in which he also specifically mentioned the use of this humanoid robot to alleviate the problem of reduced birth rate. Someday, personality consciousness will be able to be "downloaded" or "stored" on Optimus Prime robots, Musk said.
In response to Musk's statement, the reporter also asked a question: "Like a different kind of immortality? Musk also immediately gave an affirmative answer.
In addition, on the topic of "immortality", Musk also made his attitude that there is no point in studying longevity at the physical level, but on the contrary, he is more in favor of "copying" the human brain to machines to achieve a "different kind of immortality"
It is worth mentioning that although Musk agrees to "copy" the human brain to the machine to achieve a "different kind of immortality", Musk has always been very jealous of the development of artificial intelligence.
Musk has always been a solid advocate of the "artificial intelligence destruction of humanity" theory, he has repeatedly affirmed Hawking's prediction that artificial intelligence will destroy humanity, and has repeatedly shouted to humans: "I have been ringing alarm bells, but until I see robots walking into the street to kill people, people do not know how to react, because they look so ethereal." 」 ”
In this interview, Musk once again said that he currently has three "biggest fears", and one of them is the crisis of artificial intelligence.
Therefore, although Tesla has begun to work on the development of humanoid robots, Musk still pays great attention to its safety.
It can be seen that in the face of the unknown of the future world, even a technology maniac like Musk has shown a very tangled psychology, hoping that the future human memory can be implanted in the brain and obtain "immortality", on the other hand, he is also worried about the disaster brought about by the crisis of artificial intelligence.
Obviously, with the continuous development of technology, no one knows what the world will become in the future. But even so, the torrent of science and technology is still irreversible, in the face of the unpredictability of the future development of artificial intelligence, no one can give an absolute answer,
But it is certain that the times have progressed, the development of robots has become an irreversible fact, and the best defense that human beings can do is to continuously improve their self-awareness and innovation ability, in order to always stand in an invincible position.