🧠 Hello Me?! Did I just get cloned? 💡As I’m sitting here in the Holy land of Techies, Silicon valley, I can’t but wonder are we entering a new ‘Post Humanism’ era with AI creating it own synthetic foot print. Are we all slowly transforming in syntactic human? Yes Im very well aware of the more philosophical air of this post, but I wanted to play a bit with the questions that I have in my mind and see how it looks on paper. If you don’t want to get too confused I would recommend you stop reading here.
Do we know what makes us uniquely Human and is very difficult to replicate into AI? We thought it would be creativity, but that seams to be shattered into a million piece. So is it is our brain 🧠 and our own general intelligence to grasp the world and its context? Is it just a matter of time or is there more to it? Are we at a pivotal point?
Some argue we are. Take for instance Yaval Harri with his statement that it is the end of Human History and Culture. Can you blame him, think about it. If all our content our books, video’s, movies, our work is delivered by AI is that still ‘human’ content? Or do we move into a new era, that of post humanism. The era of hybrid, machine and human collaboration. That of ‘synthetic humans’ maybe. How big will be our own footprint?
If you look closely you will start to notice it. Bots to copilot our jobs, our lives and even our digital social presences. Your voice, your appearance, your thoughts, can now be recored and live on forever! It can all be digitised and stored. Could we keep a record of all human ever lived? Could we talk to them? Could we understand their thoughts and their time? We used to do it in scrolls, then books, now maybe as synthetic humans? Have we solved extantialism? Will we fall in love with machines? Now in Korea you have AI Influencers, and they are pretty and powerful as their opinions are tracked by millions.
I told you it would get weird, you should have stopped reading. Let’s keep going, who here would want to live forever? Is this our chance? Would you clone yourself into a complete digital version of yourself? Or maybe even beter upload yourself to a whole new body. I have have been experimenting with multiple applications out there and they are pretty amazing. Now think about having an MeGPT (you yes you) with voice, a body.
So many questions left. I think. So I am? Hmmm that will be challenged soon. We always say “that will never happen”, but then it does. Our thoughts are our own and will be forever!? Oh maybe not, if it is up to Elon Musks Brain to machine interface…
This is not a pro or con edition. It is just a thought piece here to make you think about technology and how it changing our lives. Sometime for the better. Open up your thinking, exchange ideas, thoughts, concerns that can guide our technology progress into mostly good.
What are your thoughts on this?