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The belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means of science and technology. Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations as well as the ethical limitations of using such technologies. The most common transhumanist thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the current condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings. Wikipedia
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The coming transhuman era: Jason Sosa at TEDxGrandRapids
Sosa is the founder and CEO of IMRSV, a computer vision and artificial intelligence company and was named one of "10 Startups to Watch in NYC" by Time Inc., and one of "25 Hot and New Startups to Watch in NYC" by Business Insider.
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AI and Artificially Enhanced Brains - with Susan Schneider
explores the philosophy, ethics and cognitive science behind the idea of merging or replacing our brains with artificial intelligence.
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Transhumanism: Could we live forever? BBC News
The Victoria Derbyshire programme's Benjamin Zand goes on the search for immortality and meets the people who think we could live forever. This film is part of BBC's 'Intelligent Machines Week’
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Connecting Brains: The BrainNet - VPRO documentary - 2014
Can we connect human brains together? What are the limits of what we can do with our brain? Is BrainNet our future? In science fiction movies, scientists' brains are downloaded into computers and criminal brains are connected to the Internet. Interesting, but how does it work in real life? Original title: The greedy brain Scientific journalist Rob van Hattum wondered what information we can truly get from our brain and came across an extraordinary scientific experience. An experiment where the brains of two rats were directly connected: one rat was in the United States and the other rat was in Brazil. They could influence the brain of the other directly. Miguel Nicolelis is the Brazilian neurologist who conducted this experiment. In his book 'Beyond Boundaries' he describes his special experiences in detail and predicts that it should be possible to create a kind of BrainNet. For Backlight, Rob van Hattum went to Sao Paulo and also visited all Dutch neuroscientists, looking for what the future holds for our brain. He connected his own brain to computers and let it completely be scanned, searching for the limits of reading out the brain.
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What is transhumanism? | Albert Lin | Storytellers Summit 2019
For technologist and National Geographic Explorer Albert Lin, human technology is personal. He describes the moment when his leg was crushed under a vehicle two years ago as both his death and his rebirth. Now partially bionic, he endeavors to make prosthetics more accessible to the 40 million amputees in the world.
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I'm transhuman. I'm going to become digital - BBC
Five years in the future, in the London of 2024, Stephen and Celeste worry about their daughter, Bethany, who declares herself a transhuman.
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The story of Replika, the AI app that becomes you
Replika is a chatbot that creates a digital representation of you. It's strange and fascinating -- but the story behind it is even better. Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend died in 2015. Using a chatbot structure she developed, she entered their messaging history into a Google-built neural network, creating a bot she could interact with. It was the earliest version of Replika, a bot that, as you interact with it, turns into a digital representation of you. Read more: https://goo.gl/9nR4tt
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* Black Mirror 'Be Right Back'
Centers on a young woman whose boyfriend is killed in a car accident. In mourning, she signs up for a service that allows her to communicate with an AI version of him based on his past online communications and social media profiles -- ultimately turning it into an android version of her boyfriend. But he's never exactly the same.
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Geekery in General 228: Black Mirror S2E1 Be Right Back
Al and Chad kick off season 2 of Black Mirror with Be Right Back, an episode that explores the theme of grief and artificial intelligence.
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Black Mirror 'Be Right Back'
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover. Here's our reaction to season 2, episode 1 of Black Mirror. The Black Mirror episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back" had two sources of inspiration: the question of whether to delete a dead friend's phone number from one's contacts, and the idea that Twitter posts could be made by software mimicking dead people.Wikipedia
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