This startup is trying to digitize your brain.
In theory, you could live forever... or at least a part of you.
A startup that just raised over $16m is trying to create a digital version of you. Have you ever wondered if you can speak to 5,000,000 people at the same time? Well, now you might be able to (somehow.)
Delphi, an AI startup, allows you to create a digital version of yourself to either have chats or calls with others. But they’re trying to enhance their “Advanced mind architecture” in their highest paid tier to grasp as much as possible.
The concept is wild. But it’s been there for a while now. I’ve worked a while back with a company that does digital twinning of your physical appearance by scanning you. That’s also cool. Add that with your brain, you’ve got yourself “soul-less immortality”.
Let’s push this idea even more and imagine a world where this works out…
Infinite Wisdom
Let’s look at the positives. If we had a digital version of Buddha or Martin Luther King, that wouldn’t be so bad. It would inspire people. But we’d also have a digital version of those who are the exact opposite. So that’s the not so good news.
A different form of socializing will be happening. You’re looking at a video on YouTube and you know this person is not real - but some of him is (his memories, knowledge, and wisdom) which is not so bad in our current AI-dominant world.
I’ve been recently working on an AI media project - the more i research into it, the more i realize that people are starting to adopt AI imagery and video more than usual. Finding an AI video used to be scary and impressive, now it’s just okay. In time, when a few use cases are right, it’ll just be GOOD. That’s when the public starts to accept such things.
The question you’ll keep asking yourself though - is it “humanly?” is it “ok”?
Is it like an audio book of a person with the ability to ask the book questions?
Is it like an advanced version of a person due to it being able to learn faster and from a bigger data set than humans?
There will always be two sides to this coin. Eventually, when it becomes the norm, people will stop wondering. After all, we’re always affected by the public opinion, per se.
If everyone’s using WhatsApp, you’ll probably end up doing that.
If everyone stops using plastic, you’ll decrease your usage.
We're an “us” instead of “me.”
Yet, a future with such concepts decreases the “us” factor, as it hits the socializing element.
“Anti” Social? or Just “Normal”
Everyone’s using their phones 24/7. Some might think this is anti-social. Others believe it’s the normal. They’re both right. But the dominant opinion is the one that will be the only opinion sooner or later.
The older generations objected to the usage of these technologies. Nowadays, they’re using technology as much as the next person.
Some will object to the digital version of people. But if its use cases make sense - like the digital version of Steve Jobs, then we’ll have this future full of digital people in no time.