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i’d like this for animals not humans tho
I pray they probably could keep someone alive with Quantum Artificial Intelligence by going right into treating and recovering the problem also save and rescue after a case of death with Time Travel to recover, Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer 2029, Quantum Internet reading universe program Stargate flight doing better than money restore experience time in advancements nature in technology doing better than death everything in life Aliens among us and God bless America the future and life extension of the universe. Amen. God bless.
Well hello Black Mirror
What about not valuing people anymore because once you mistreat them and scare them away, you know you can resort to a idealised version of themselves on AI?
1:34
It’s not your loved one. It’s fake. It’s fictional. It’s unhealthy for the same reason visiting “mediums” is unhealthy. It’s someone fabricating artificial interaction with a person who is no longer alive. It’s a con. It’s dishonest.
Humans are not supposed to be God, and playing God will backfire horrifically
You like to play make-believe?
The spirit of your deceased lover totally took possession of me.
Promise.
Look forward to receiving auto-generated ads for “AI Grief Counseling Services” when your loved ones start killing themselves because they can’t find jobs in a polluted hellscape of strip mines and data centers.
Only desparate assholes will use AI to communicate (????????) with the dead. Waste of time and space.
There are no aliens visiting earth ever. AI will never be sentient and it will never replace human brain power. AI will not help people communicate with their loved ones. It can’t because they are dead. Deceased. No longer in reality. Communicate? Get it?
Isn’t avoidance and denial of reality a sign of being mentally unwell? Loss is hard. But playing mind games with oneself in a purchased subscription to psychosis surely will not lead to healthy or positive outcomes. That this whole industry exists is disturbing. It seems like an extension of the fake psychics who prey on the bereaved by claiming connections with the ‘other side.’
Dang thought this was gonna be Simon and got played
So just fyi people mix these up. Cryogenics is the science of extremely low temperatures. Cryonics is the attempt to preserve a human body or brain at very low temperatures after legal death, hoping future technology can revive it. Freezing bodies to bring them back later, the correct term is cryonics.
I despise AI
The most interesting thing in this video was the fact that someone was able to be cryogenically frozen in the mid-late 1900s
AI is empowering people who otherwise would not have the creative skills. And you can bet that creative people are using AI too, if they can.
2:44 They get you attached to an AI of someone you’ve lost…
Then paywall em, and go “give a grand a month to see them again”
interesting. thanks.
that thumbnail is like when markiplier was hospitalized