Virtually Human : : the Promise--And the Peril--Of Digital Immortality
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"Explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the world's most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics. Bina48 is a nascent Mindclone of Martine's wife that can engage in conversation, answer questions, and even have spontaneous thoughts that are derived from multimedia data in a Mindfile created by the real Bina. If you're active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you're already on your way to creating a Mindfile--a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250046635
1250046637
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Steadman, Ralph,
SUBJECTS
Artificial intelligence -- Forecasting.
Virtual reality -- Forecasting.
Cyberspace -- Psychological aspects.
Neurobiology -- Forecasting.
Thought and thinking.