Exploring Immortality in AI and Consciousness

These things are immortal, and these large chatbots are immortal.

If you keep a copy of the weights somewhere, you can destroy all of the hardware they were using, build more hardware later, put the same weights on that hardware, and they've come back to life.

The very same thing has come back to life, the very same being.

But I got interested in the fact to achieve that kind of immortality, we have to have the hardware do exactly what we tell it to do with the program.

And so I decided to explore what would happen if we abandoned that principle of separating the software from the hardware, and we had things like our brains in which there's no distinction.

The connection strengths in your brain are no use to anybody else.

They've got a different brain with neurons with different properties connected in different ways in detail, and your connection strengths have no interest to them.

Um, this dream of old white men that they're gonna upload themselves to a computer is just nonsense.

The connection strengths you have that make you you are intimately related to the particular neurons you have that make you you.

You can't upload your weights and have them run on some other hardware.

Just forget it. Um, Kurzweil has to come to terms with the fact he's gonna die.