Ray Kurzweil on Bringing Back the Dead
Clip: 7/12/2012 | 4m 11s
An interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of bringing back the dead.
Thursday's outtake with Mr. Immortality: does Kurzweil believe that an avatar of his dead father -- created with artificial intelligence and a lifetime's worth of data and mementos -- is, well, his actual father, the guy who died when Ray was 22? We asked him how that quest influenced his goal of "immortality today."
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Ray Kurzweil on Bringing Back the Dead
Clip: 7/12/2012 | 4m 11s
Thursday's outtake with Mr. Immortality: does Kurzweil believe that an avatar of his dead father -- created with artificial intelligence and a lifetime's worth of data and mementos -- is, well, his actual father, the guy who died when Ray was 22? We asked him how that quest influenced his goal of "immortality today."
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