• Rich Personal Data Store + Powerful AI = Virtual You
• If AI was advanced enough, it could start expressing its own opinion
• What will it take to create a sentient robot? Do we want to? And where are we in the process?
• Exponential development: each step gets bigger as you go up the stairs.
• Accelerating evolution of our tools.
• It took 400,000 years from fire to bronze. It took 6,000 years from bronze to an iphone in your pocket.
• is the state of AI today fire or bronze?
• We are going to approach the singularity.
• The moment that happens, we will be unable to see beyond. We will have people smarter than us. We can’t anticipate what they would do.
• Stephen Reed: Texai:
• A system you can teach useful things
• Robots are making inroads into the bluecollar workplace.
• AI makes inroads into whitecollar workplace.
• Create the mind of a child, and then educate it.
• We’ll see a demonstration of natural language 
• Bruce Duncan
• has a robot that works for him: Bina48
• Goal with lifenaut is to archive human mind and upload into a robot
• Mindfiles & Androids
• Early mind uploading: cave paintings
• Human beings have a need to upload: to share what’s on their mind.
• Sum of all social media data can be used to reconstruct personality.
• https://www.lifenaut.com/
• Given a saturated datase or “mind file” that can be used by a future AI to be able to replicate your consciousness
• In the future, you will be expected to have an avatar that is not just off the shelf, but can interact with people and act as you in certain circumstances.
• http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/
• Genes / Memes / Bemes
• Digital mindfiles capture bemes:
• mannerisms
• personality
• language
• What’s in it?
• digital video/photos
• blogs and diaries
• psych tests and lists
• Bainbridge surveys
• sensecam data
• feedback as others see me
• Terasem Hypothesis: In the future, these reanimated personalities will be able to be imported into biological, nano-technological, and/or robotic bodies.
• Bina48: first android based on a mindfile
• Q: Merging mind files?
• We made a science fiction film based on this: http://2bmovie.com/
• We have multi-user mind files: to recreate a historical person, or a deceased family member.
• Q: Did you have any children see Bina48 and how did they react?
• We had an 8th grade intern, and he just sat down and talked to Bina48. He wasn’t phased by the technology at all.
• Q: In layman’s terms, what is happening?
• We use Dragon Naturally Speaking to do voice to text conversion.
• We take the text input and feed into two databases.
• One is a chatty database
• One is a personality database
• They compete to provide the best answer.
• The sentences are stored in small pieces. She rarely gives the same sequence of sentences twice.