AI ‘brain upload’ allows the dead to trade forever
The world's savviest traders may one day let their knowledge and financial portfolios live long after death through the magic of artificial intelligence.
At least that's the premise being framed by AI enthusiasts and futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Elon Musk. Other insiders, such as anthroponic AI's Dario Amodei, believe that the technology necessary to make this a reality – so-called “brain-implantation” – will be developed eventually, but not in the next decade.
On the other hand, a possible collaboration between OpenAI and the late Eddie Van Halen could serve as a catalyst for that timeline.
Mind loading
The big idea behind Mind Cross is that somehow humans can one day use AI as a fully functional digital recreation of our brains. In theory, this digital entertainment is fundamentally indistinguishable from the real thing, except that it doesn't exist in the physical world.
Philosophically speaking, this would allow humans and AI systems to continue interacting with a digital version of a once-living human after the person has passed.
However, there is no theoretical science to support the idea that this digital copy will in any way be the same person as the brain uploader.
While this all sounds like science fiction, the idea continues to gain traction as the rising tide of AI development brings new paradigms of technology.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthroposic, recently published a lengthy blog post describing a utopian future world where AI-powered innovations eliminate mental illness and disease. Amidst his bright optimism, Amodei even developed a philosophy on the subject of mind uploads:
“This topic could be the subject of an essay on its own, but I think crossover is certainly possible in principle, but in practice it faces huge technological and societal challenges, even with powerful AI, suffice it to say. Outside of the 5-10 year window we're discussing.”
To be clear, Amodei referred to the idea of uploading the human mind to an AI system as “sci-fi” in a blog post. He said discussions around far-fetched AI-based ideas like mind uploading could lead people to underestimate the current and emerging developments in the field.
However, he and other scholars in the field have given weight to the idea over the past few years. For example, Amodei and Musk were both co-founders at OpenAI before moving on to generative AI companies. And the aforementioned futurist Kurzweil was one of Google's lead AI scientists. Their predictions often carry more gravitas in the AI and science communities.
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The pernicious effect of their support has led to the general perception that mind-numbing is on the list of tricks AI can eventually perform. These include fully autonomous driving, human-level reasoning and general intelligence.
Scientifically speaking, however, there is no peer-reviewed research that we know of that any theoretical technologies, including human-level AI and mind-implantation, are even possible.
In the medical field, scientists have not fully mapped the neural network in the human brain. But it is clearly orders of magnitude more complex than the most advanced AI models in existence.
That being said, since 2014, since the introduction of generative adversarial networks (the technology that underpins AI models like ChatGPT and Cloud), progress in the field of AI has been slow.
A breakthrough in the field of brain uploading can revolutionize human experience in the same way that electricity, the Internet, and artificial intelligence have.
Immortal rock legend
While it would never be possible to transfer one's consciousness to a machine, the idea of one-to-one recreation of a complex neural network is considered plausible by many neuroscientists, at least in the long term.
Legendary drummer Alex Van Halen of the band named after him and his brother Eddie recently revealed that he contacted OpenAI in hopes of collaborating on something similar to brain uploading.
Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen He passed away in 2020 after a battle with cancer. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Brother Alex recently reached out to OpenAI with the idea of creating an AI system to generate the sound of a guitar player.
Alex asked OpenAI to develop a system to analyze “how Edward would play something” to create new singles for unreleased songs from the band.
According to an interview, Alex Van Halen said he envisions Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant as a replacement for estranged Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth — a combination that, AI-assisted or not, could pique the interest of any rock fan. .
Finally, it remains unclear whether mind uploads are possible. However, if OpenAI takes Van Halen's challenge and succeeds, it's arguable that any machine that can play guitar like Eddie Van Halen can learn to trade cryptocurrency at a virtuoso level.
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