Imagos Inc
30 Oct 2021 - 30 Apr 2025
- A company that delivers essentially what the neural imagos in A Memory Called Empire provide, but without the neural interface, which is not really essential.
- That breaks down to;
- a GPT-3 or better linguistic simulation of a person, derived from their own writings and conversation, recorded over their lifespan, and serving as a simulated version of themself after they are dead.
- UI technology that isn't neural – say, uses subvocalization and similar channels. So you can have an internal conversation with this thing; not that different from an imaginary conversation with a purely natural-brain imago.
- A business plan that deals with the problem that it takes a long time to gather the data. (In my case I have a shitload of writing I could use)
- Marketing: think of selling this as a form of insurance, the sort of prudent and responsible thing someone would do to ensure that his dependents are taken care of after they are gone.
- We sell you the voices that are already in your head...
- That's sort of the punchline or in-joke...
- It occurs to me that GPT-3-like technology could make pretty decent approximations of imagos right now. Damn, there's almost a business there, someone must be doing this.
- ‘Spooky’ AI tool by genealogy company brings dead relatives’ photos to life | Al Arabiya English (photos, not speech, so not that relevant)
- Rudy Rucker coined the term "lifebox" (in his book The Lifebox, The Seashell, and the Soul) which is basically the same idea I think?
