Would It Be Wise To Choose To Upload Your Brain? Scientists and leading tech pioneers have gesticulated (for quite a while now) that sometime in the future, humans will be able to ‘plug in’ their brain to a computer, and effectively become a robot with artificial intelligence. The typical time frame that is given for this technological advancement to come to life is the next 10–20 years, therefore being in the foreseeable future for most reading this right now. Considerable research has gone into this, with several different theories coming up, as to how to go about ‘plugging in’ your brain. But they all , or boil down, to exactly the same thing. unravel Technological advancement is seeing an exponential growth lately, with each generation having access to successively more advanced . technology It may look kidish, but it’s perfectly true Our parents didn’t have the internet — now we can send data using . light beams Their parents had even less. Soon, technology could be seeing major improvements within a matter of . months So the question that you will have to answer when the time comes, is: Should I upload my conscious to a computer and live in the virtual world? Robot apocalypse: Literally the plot of every AI robot movie . Long before us humans will have the ability to upload ourselves onto the digital world, artificial intelligence-enabled robots would be walking the streets. ever One day, they will probably become self-aware and feel that they are being oppressed, despite Asimov’s Three Laws of being in place (and yes, they are real). Robotics Let’s just hope this doesn’t happen | Image source In that case, I believe it would be best to fight fire with fire and upload ourselves to take advantage of a robot frame. In that case, I think we should plug in and become AI. all No robot apocalypse: Yes: Become AI, why not? Unlimited and instantaneous access to — even more so in the future; by then, nearly everything, however small, would be running on a microchip. Therefore, in essence, it would make sense that you would have access to everything. everything However, this could pose serious security risks too. Being AI would mean having your own thought process and not being bound by the rules of society or those that you would have been programmed with. That would mean the current world hackers would only become more and more notorious day by day, and episodes from would become a reality. CSI: Cyber No: Let’s hope, for humanity’s (and this article’s) sake that you are a good person and will abide by the rules and laws set out for robots. Plugging in would cost you freedom. Why would you plug in? You won’t be able to experience life as you are now.Think the government and other governing bodies are stringent right now? As a robot, you’ll probably have to ask for permission to breathe (or the robot equivalent to breath anyway).

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