19 April 2015
The recent technological advancement in robotics has proved that the
science fiction idea of human being virtualised is actually possible. You can
become a virtual copy of yourself with your memory stored elsewhere, whilst
artificial intelligence overtakes your mind and your outward expression. The
article published by Russia Today stating that google has secured a patent for
a robot that mimics the owner:
“Imagine a robot-pal who could mimic its owner, a “deceased loved
one,” or even a “celebrity.” This sci-fi concept may soon be reality after
Google was awarded a US patent to develop downloadable personalities for
robots.”
Yes, indeed, our google is going to get a robot that mimics your
personal gestures, behaviour, tone of voice, etc. Not to forget that this is
the search engine with vast amount of information that human cultures have
accumulated throughout centuries. The search engine that gives us answers to
our queries on just about anything and also stores our questions; and it knows
what we are interested in. This is the
search engine acquiring combat robots amongst other things and disseminating
information in more ways than one.
This robot will also be able to express various moods in the manner that
you normally express and it won’t stop there. It will carry on functioning
after we have passed away and it will develop by accessing more of our personal
information:
“A robot may access a
user device to determine or identify information about a user, and the robot
may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the user based
on the identified information,” the patent detailed. In building its own
personality, the robot could “further receive data associated with the user”
through speech and facial recognition.”
This patent also allows for Cloud based information sharing. Of course, it is not the robot that is as
important outwardly but the micro-chip that will achieve such a state. One can
now imagine the royal heads, celebrities, heads of state lining up to get their
lookalikes to insert this micro-chip as this will make them indistinguishable
from the original person. This puts the job of a lookalike in a totally
different category, a risky one, we may presume, as they will be pressurised to
accept this micro-chip for the vast amounts of remuneration offered.
The question we might ask is where our real personality would be whilst
this Artificial Intelligence micro-chip is taking over our precious behavioural
patterns and such, displaying this to our nearest and dearest, exactly the same
way as they are accustomed to?
Another research on phys.org is an eye
opener on that. The article published by the name: “Nanoscale Light trapping
mirrored cavities amplify connect quantum memories” states that the tiny particles,
photons, can be controlled with Nano technology and microwave
manipulation. This discovery has great
variety of applications and by using this technology, they are also focusing on
connecting distant quantum memories
The article states that:
“It is already possible to transfer information about the electron spin
state via photons, but we have to make the interface between the photons and
electrons more efficient.”
They can also extend the storage time
of the quantum memories. The article simply states that these are the quantum
memories in solids “that are couple with photons.”
So why photons? There are some other
research documents that give us answers to that showing the significance of
this discovery. The importance of photons becomes apparent because we store our
memories as holographic images and the transfer of these can be facilitated by
using precisely, this photon trapping and manipulation technology.
The connection with the quantum
transfer of memories and the micro-chip that mimics the owner is to use this
memories to its advantage to establish the similarity between the imposter and
the original and deceive the onlookers. This could be one of the obvious
applications of this AI chip. Whilst this device is using the memory of the original
owner, the actual memory can be manipulated in many ways. It must be clear that
if memory can be retrieved, it could potentially, be uploaded as well to a
‘safe’ device, such as the Cloud. Let’s not kid about it. If there is quantum
technology that uploads such large data, it would work the opposite way as
well. In other words, what’s unloadable is also downloadable. Thus, this memory
or any other information including unsolicited, could be downloaded into the
subject’s micro-chip. This could be someone’ else’s memories or advertising
material of any kind. Politicians could conduct their election propaganda
directly into our brains together with the adverts of household cleaning agents
and they would also create the ‘likeable’ mood in our brain for the subject to
welcome this. This opens the door to wide range of ethical questions. This
devastates any thought, trust or belief some people might have in democracy.
This casts a severe blow to the idea that people should be allowed to perceive
the reality on their own terms and make up their own mind. In other words, an
individual should use external environment and create his/her opinion without
this type of intrusion directly into his/her sensory and processing equipment,
such as human brain. So now we can see the true extent of all the above
discoveries, research and their applications. This should go against the core
of what most people in a democratic state should stand for.
So the conclusion is that the far
reaching aim of this google patent to introduce the AI chip mimicking the owner
is about arresting one’s own human mind and disabling its operations whilst the
robotic intelligence that emulates the host will take over its outward
functions. The individual’s actual memory will be uploaded to the Cloud and
whilst it is kept ‘safe’ there the actual human body will be managed by the AI
chip perfectly adjusting to its known outward behaviour. This effectively,
means the virtualisation of a human mind as we won’t be dealing with the real
person because his/her mind will be stored elsewhere, What will be projected
into the acting human mind is anybody’s guess. In simple terms, this means a total
obliteration of one as an individual.
Katrina Day
BSc MA Cert Ed, is an author and campaigner against
micro-chipping humans and digital tattoos, striving to get the law passed in
British Parliament where micro-chipping minors under any reason, medical or any
other, will be criminalised. Adults can only be micro-chipped or digitally
tattooed if they give their informed consent.
References and Bibliography:
1 Google secures patent for robots with
customizable personalities
Published time: April 02, 2015 17:30
2 Nanoscale Light trapping mirrored
cavities amplify connect quantum memories
Jan 28, 2015
4 The Quantum Hologram And the Nature
of Consciousness
Edgar D. Mitchell, Sc.D.1, and Robert
Staretz, M.S.
1Apollo Astronaut, 6th Man to Walk on the Moon, Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14.
JournalofCosmology.com, 2011
1Apollo Astronaut, 6th Man to Walk on the Moon, Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14.
JournalofCosmology.com, 2011
5 Discovery of quantum vibrations in
'microtubules' corroborates theory of consciousness, Jan 16, 2014,
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-microtubules-corroborates.html
6 We'll be uploading our entire MINDS
to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90
years, Google expert claims, Victoria Woollaston,
Published: 15:22, 19 June 2013 |
Updated: 15:22, 19 June 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344398/Google-futurist-claims-uploading-entire-MINDS-computers-2045-bodies-replaced-machines-90-years.html
