Plan to bring people back from the dead by freezing their brains and then resurrecting them with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence and apps would watch people during their lives — and then use that to bring them back to life
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Your support makes all the difference.A company claims that it is developing technology to bring people back from the dead.
Humai says that it is developing technology that would allow brains to be frozen and have their information stored, bringing people back using artificial intelligence. The technology could be available to the public within the next 30 years, the company claimed.
The details of how exactly the company intends to bring people back to life are still unclear. And as often with such grand claims, it is possible that the people behind the firm are only making them as a hoax or publicity stunt.
But if the technology is real then it would involve freezing a person’s brain and then fitting it with a reality chip. Once the techniques were sufficiently advanced, the frozen brain would then be taken out of its freezer and put into a new body, allowing the person to be brought back to life.
Before the person dies, the company would use artificial intelligence to study the conversational style and behaviour of their customers. That would then be fed into the chip so that the person that was being re-animated would be preserved.
“We'll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we're developing,” founder Josh Bocanegra told PopSci in an interview. “After death we'll freeze the brain using cryonics technology. When the technology is fully developed we'll implant the brain into an artificial body.
“The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages we'll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.”
The company’s slick website claim that it wants “to bring you back to life after you die”.
“We’re using artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioural patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out,” the site reads. “This data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.”
The company has five people working together to create the technology, it claims. That includes people working on artificial intelligence, “bionics and sensors” and nanotechnology.
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