For those who have enjoyed Westworld and other Sci-fi movies and writings of high quality that have imagined digital beings, robots, like humans, I give you “The Specification”. I have worked for weeks on this, if not years imaging it, and it kind of makes sense. I give it freely. It is what it is, I take no responsibility for birthing the document which creates a digital virtual human being! Not joking actually…
VHOS —A generic OS for capturing, modeling, and re-instantiating “virtual human beings” across successive generations of AI — the Virtual Human Operating System.
Very interesting proposal on virtual human operating systems. The concept of capturing and re-instantiating consciousness across AI generations raises profound questions about identity continuity. Would be fascinating to see how this handles memory degradation and personality drift over successive instantiations. Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking work!
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Very interesting proposal on virtual human operating systems. The concept of capturing and re-instantiating consciousness across AI generations raises profound questions about identity continuity. Would be fascinating to see how this handles memory degradation and personality drift over successive instantiations. Thanks for sharing this thought-provoking work!
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I read your comment “ re-instantiating consciousness across AI generations” is an interesting problem indeed and I tried to address it by making the initial data capture“the foundational ground truth” for creating the personality/emotion capture and the successive compilers and future wrapped AI systems would each re-compile the foundational ground truth. So supposedly the same being would be generated for each AI technological improvement (assuming it was improving).
The problem that arises is what happens to the memory and continuance of an evolving virtual human simulation every time a system replacement happens? Perhaps there needs to be a transfer process for that, but this document specification does not currently address it and therefore it could be a significant sort coming which any future virtual human being might need to address itself. I don’t know, very good question!