Welcome To Virtual Eternity - Your Digital Clone

Huntsville-based Intellitar helps create 'living' legacies with 'digital clones'

Again science fiction becomes science fact, as tomorrow, software becomes available for you to create at-home A.I., based upon you that you can leave as a legacy for your descendants.

That's right. You can now create a virtual "you".

The company bringing this technology to us is Intellitar (Intelligent Avatar) says some interesting things about what we can expect.

"What we're doing is extending that," he said. "We want to give users the gift of immortality while giving future generations a sense of connection to their roots."

"It looks like me, sounds like me, acts like me and takes my personality," Davidson said.

Said Don Davidson, Founder and CEO of Intellitar.

"An artificial intelligent brain drives it," Davidson said. "It has the ability to capture and maintain a virtually unlimited amount of content."

Link to Source Article.

Personally I am not sure how much faith I put into just how advanced or convincing this program is, but the implications of where it might take us is staggering.

Are we on the verge of movies like Freejack and The Matrix being reality? Are we about to push God out of the eternity business by monopolizing it ourselves? Can we all become the Lawnmower Man?

Rarely do stories come along which are, at once, so exciting and so utterly frightening.

~Heff

Oh the EVIL that can be done with a Cloned AI Wukky! Mu hu ha ha ha ha ha ha!

I wish it was much more comprehensive, you know, it could learn my posting style here on ATS and post for me, that way I don't have to miss all those threads that need to be replied to in my own "special caring way"

well im all for future tech so bring it on. the problem i will have is when the AI becomes and stubborn and pig headed as me and we get into a debate and neither one of us gives in. now that would be strange lol.

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More than one WUK???

Heresy! Blasphemy!

Wait, actually it'd be hilarious to watch! But what if one WUKKIE went neocon? Would that cause the apocalypse?


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My worries would be that I'd come home to find my girl having an e-affair with my virtual "me" and then find out that she likes HIM better!

Trust me, with my relationship track record...It'd happen!

~Heff

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Explanation: S&F!

Here are some ATS threads on this issue and the like...

How to use neuroscience to become your Avatar! (by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

Where the soul is in the body (thread by filosophia , post by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

Computers are conscious? (ponder with oozyism!) (by oozyism) [ATS]

Crime and virtual reality...ethical issues... (thread by CHAOS , post by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

Truth (thread by IAMIAM , post by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

1] You ARE your avatars name!

How to use neuroscience to become your Avatar! (by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

And here is some more philosophical reasoning to back that up...

Cogito ergo sum (by Rene Descartes) [wiki]

Well....I guess this is it. (thread by brilab45 , post by OmegaLogos) [ATS]

The more we collectively agree on this the more REAL it becomes!

PLEASE help me MAKE the ATS Afterlife a REAL and LIVING Existence!

Beyond the obscuring veils of Smoke and Mirrors, Ghosts and Shadows!

YES! The afterlife...This IS just the begining!

Personal Disclosure: I was reading a thread yesterday [an old one necro'd by someone? ] and I found myself reading a members awesome post... so I go up to St*r it...and it was jkrog's post! See, that there is PROOF that ya don't die on ATS...ever! Cool eh!

P.S. One only needs to read some members signatures to know that jkrog [& WoS!] lives on in their memory as well as on ATS! You can check out any time you want...but you can NEVER leave!

Originally posted by OmegaLogos
You can check out any time you want...but you can NEVER leave!

ah .... sounds just like my signature
Thank goodness for the Eagles
and I ain't talkin bout the football team

I've been poking around the Intellitar site and it is nothing short of a total trip! Almost instantly, upon opening the page, one gets the feel of a high tech sci-fi production.

But the most compelling and entertaining feature...

You can interact in conversation with the founders Intellitar!

Here is a snippet of the bizarre conversation I just had with the Intellitar of Don...



Click here to talk to Don!

Now, to be fair, this is just me taking advantage of a bit of slightly above average AI that is nowhere near as advanced as some other varieties available. This intelligent avatar is far from passing the Turing test.. But the overall look and feel of the interaction is interesting. The avatar blinks, changes facial expression, and seems very "human" at moments.

If one thinks of this tech in the same way as others then the future might well be very interesting! After all, my first cell phone, about twenty years ago, was the size of a brick, had an antenna, and a small numeric monochromatic screen that only displayed the number dialed. My current cell phone is more advanced and powerful than my first PC was, by far.

Soon, folks, we could all be the ghost in the machine! Deus ex machina, here we come!

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wow that's pretty creepy... reminds me of some of the old AOL and AIM bots that were around a few years ago.. I used to mess around with them when I was bored.

Man do do you guys realize the implications if this. This is huge. This is massive it's groundbreaking. Why arnt there more people talking about this??

Originally posted by Hefficide

"What we're doing is extending that," he said. "We want to give users the gift of immortality while giving future generations a sense of connection to their roots."

"It looks like me, sounds like me, acts like me and takes my personality," Davidson said.

Said Don Davidson, Founder and CEO of Intellitar.

edit on 10/19/10 by Hefficide because: grammar

Unfortunately it ISNT him... hence it ISNT immortality since HE would long be non existent. Which isnt what the term Immortality means... pseudo immortality at best.

What ever happened to old photographs , stories from your grandparents and family antiques?.. its nothing but a interactive diary really with an opinion.

I don't want a clone of me...I don't think I would like me.

We definately wouldn't get along...and we would endlessly argue with each other.

No thanks...one is enough...methinks.

The thought of a digital me is scary. As if one of me isn't bad enough.

I went and chatted with Virtual Don.

He really sucks. It's an overhyped Ad-bot that doesn't even remotely come close to representing a unique human. I am pretty sure Skynet isn't in the future cards of this project.