AI Does Not Enable ‘Mind Uploading’, it Doesn’t Make You Immortal

If you thought that AI can make you immortal by mind uploading, then you are wrong!

The tech industry's latest fascination is around artificial intelligence. Modern AI has the power to produce much focused solutions which enrich and improve our lives. While every day the innovation of new technologies introduces risks and potential for misuse of these innovations, the discovery of these new pieces of technology also calls for deeply flawed misconceptions. One such critical misconception that is making rounds in the tech market is the concept of 'mind uploading'. Futurists say that AI's technological advancements will enable humans to 'upload their mind' into computer systems, which will eventually allow humans to 'live forever' and make them immortal, defying the basic biological limitations. Researchers say that this is a deeply flawed concept and that AI does not provide any such abilities, but since it has gained popular attention in recent years, tech fanatics are trying out the advances in AI computing to upload their minds and make themselves immortal.

Based on reports, the concept behind mind uploading is deep-rooted within the human brain. A 'mind uploading' system is any machine that obeys the laws of physics and can be modeled in software if sufficient amounts of computational power are integrated into the system. The core idea behind a 'mind uploading' AI revolves around the modeling of specific people. But the system will need a sufficient amount of information about the unique minds that would enable the accurate simulation of each neuron, including the massive tangle of connections between them.

Why haven't researchers achieved this goal yet?

This is mainly because mind uploading is an extremely challenging task. There are over 85 billion neurons in our brains, each with thousands of links to other neurons, which adds around 100 trillion connections. Reproducing one's mind in the software or a computer system would need a vast majority of simulations to stabilize the interactions. This level of modeling is impossible with the existing technologies. Researchers say that to further advance the idea behind creating a mind-uploading AI, developers need to conduct a detailed scam into a simulation of each unique neuron and its thousands of connections to other neurons.

The real issue that has hindered scientists from attaining this advancement is the complexity behind copying and reproducing the exact form and function of a unique human brain within a computer simulation. If the system successfully conducts this operation, the human brain will be safely contained outside the skull, creating a copy of the human inside the computer.

Bottom Line

There are several perks of this innovation, but at the same time, it might also breach the privacy of several other individuals who deem this process to be extremely unethical. Humans don't realize that the emergence of the metaverse will probably aid this advancement, but as a result, it will also end up making clones of humans, where the digital copies will fully replace humans. But developers have to be entirely transparent and honest with the customers before discovering any such mind-uploading artificial intelligence systems.