{"id":349809,"date":"2018-02-25T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-scientists-to-revive-the-dead-in-robots-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:49:11","slug":"swedish-scientists-to-revive-the-dead-in-robots-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-scientists-to-revive-the-dead-in-robots-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Scientists to Revive the Dead in Robots with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/science\/201802231061926036-ai-sweden-revive-dead-robots\/\"><strong>Sputnik<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 23, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Swedes appear to have embarked on an audacious project resembling something from an episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror; they intend to make fully conscious copies of the dead in a bid to offer digital immortality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of\u00a0Swedish scientists are researching how to\u00a0produce digital copies of\u00a0those who have already passed away. Dagen daily has reported they are also planning to\u00a0set about\u00a0making robots which would resemble the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, the Swedish funeral agency Phoenix\u00a0 is currently looking for\u00a0volunteers who would give the green light to\u00a0scientists to\u00a0replicate the images of\u00a0their deceased relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence technology is projected to\u00a0reconstruct voices of\u00a0those dead, as\u00a0well as\u00a0teach the computer program to\u00a0answer elementary questions, such as\u00a0those connected with\u00a0funeral arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The program is hoped to\u00a0evolve still further, eventually mastering quick responses to\u00a0simple questions on\u00a0everyday life or the weather, for\u00a0instance.<\/p>\n<p>The program might one day even approximate the level of\u00a0sophistication of\u00a0AI portrayed in\u00a0the sensational television series Black Mirror, in\u00a0which the revolutionary programs\u00a0 are in\u00a0essence sentient human clones, capable of\u00a0not just talking but\u00a0coming into\u00a0physical contact with\u00a0real people.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists noted that as\u00a0far back as\u00a030 years ago, people stuck to\u00a0a couple of\u00a0pictures of\u00a0their deceased relatives as\u00a0the only memory of\u00a0them, whereas nowadays, the technology could enable one to\u00a0talk to\u00a0a program which provides the image of\u00a0a departed loved one, allowing them and their relatives to\u00a0re-live the happy moments of\u00a0their past.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some of <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/society\/201712031059650616-cook-musk-hawking-ai-technologies\/\">the world\u2019s most famed scientists<\/a>, including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, have warned more than\u00a0once about\u00a0the virtual dangers of\u00a0AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at\u00a0a conference&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/black-mirror-in-action-swedish-scientists-to-revive-the-dead-in-robots-with-ai.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SputnikFebruary 23, 2018 The Swedes appear to have embarked on an audacious project resembling something from an episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror; they intend to make fully conscious copies of the dead in a bid to offer digital immortality. A number of\u00a0Swedish scientists are researching how to\u00a0produce digital copies of\u00a0those who have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}