Digital immortality and art - starts from my self description on 1990, and moves to the 2015 project Digital Immortality now

1. Alexey Turchin
Art
and digital
immortality
Foundation Science for Life Extension
alexeiturchin@gmail.com

2. We have a problem: death

3. And we have a hope: AI

4. Superintelligence
Self-improving
Exceed collective intelligence of humanity
Unite all planet
May appear in the 21 century

5. Digital immortality is plan C of reaching
immortality
Plan A is to
survive until
immortality via
fighting aging
Plan B is
cryonics

6. Two meanings of the digital immortality
а) Preservation of the human informational traces with
the hope that future AI will resurrect him - right one
б) Brain scanning of a living human

7. AI will be able to reconstruct a persobality
of a diseased person

8. AI was able to reconstruct
a poetry of a dead
musician (Letov)

9. Son created a chat-bot of his father

10. I suppouse that some level of needed fidelity
of a copy exists, like one night difference

11. But there is a mindkiller problem:
the problem of the personal identity

12. - But the copy will not be me?
- Yes.
-It will be like your nearest relative
- And may be you after all

13. More details here:

14. To reconstruct the personality we need
a lot of information

15. Passively collected information
is not enough

16. We don’t need all information

17. Information criteria:
1. Predicting – predict future behaviour
2.Valuable: related to the human values
3.Unique – predict individuality
Examples:
- Predicting but not unique: number of the fingers of the palm
- Unique but not valuable: the shape of the nail on the little
finger
- Valuable, but not unique: pin-code from the card

18. The main thesis: The work of art
meets the requirements of importance,
uniqueness and predictive value.

19. The story of my self-description in 1990
In 1990, I made my first self-description, on which I spent 2
months. Its elements:
1) Texts: a) diary, b) memoirs c) declaration of properties d)
automatic letters e) table of associations f) works of fiction
2) Drawings - an encyclopaedia of non-verbal images;
collection of children's drawings
3) Photos of important places
4) Voice recording of voice
5) Samples of fabric

20. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia
of things

21. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia of
people I know

22. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
The story of my
life told from the
inside
(analogous to
"Confession" of
Rousseau)

23. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia
of things

24. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia of
things

25. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia of
things

26. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia of
things

27. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
Encyclopedia of
things

28. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
“The thing"
A novell

29. The Story of
My Self
Description
in 1990
"Association
tables"

30. Any attempt to deliberately unload information from
yourself, self-description, leads to the creation of art. For
some artists, art became an escape from Shoushenk (A.
Lobanov, spent his entire life in a mental hospital)

31. Style as a personal hash function or digital signature
The style is unique and everyone has his own.
The correct copy will create objects in the same style.

32. The idea of the digital immortality became
fashionable in 2010s, but only as a passive
reconstruction based on social networks

33. The idea of digital immortality became
fashionable in 2010, but only as a passive
reconstruction based on social data.
networks

34. The idea of digital immortality became
fashionable in 2010, but only as a passive
reconstruction based on social networks

35. In the film "Transcendence" it is the
digital immortality used to create the
personality model of the protagonist

36. The world is constantly collecting more and more data
about people using the Internet and video surveillance,
as well as investing in the storage of these data. But
this is only passive information, and there is little
essential and individual in it.

37. At the same time, people are dying,
information is lost and no one is interested
in correctly collecting this information

38. 2015
“Digital Immortality Now"
Uploading protocol
creation

39. Digital
immortality now
The basis of the
protocol: to
encourage people
to create works of
art in order to fix
their individuality

40. Digital
immortality now
Why do we need
self-taughts:
trained in the
Academy skill will
not tell much
about the
personality

41. Digital
immortality now
Spontaneous
drawing transmits
images of the
unconscious
+ art therapy,
+ construction of
the worlds
+ active
imagination
+ drawing dreams

42. Digital
immortality now
Drawing from
nature acts as an
information filter,
and so we learn
what kind of filter
it is.

43. Digital immortality
now
Self-portrait as
presentation of your
idea of Self

44. Digital immortality now
And not only drawing: singing, a story about life, any
complex unique activity acts as an imprint of personality

45. Digital immortality now
The mode of free generation by a neural network gives its
structure

46. Проект 2015 года
Карта цифрового бессмертия