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The AI of the Vatican
When I was 16, I wanted to study art, especially modern art and digital art. Now I’m 66 years old, just officially retired and receiving my pension for doing nothing. I’m planning to study religious studies starting next semester. I am sure that my expectations will not be fulfilled, because I want to open the door to the science of life after death and the digital consciousness of the human mind. William S. Bainbridge published “Personality Capture and Emulation” in 2013. I used this work, talked to him and met him at NSF. One of my students, Krishi Synder, filled out the Bainbridge questionnaire. It took her two years to complete the 10,000+ questions. She was a Counterstrike pro at the time. I wanted to bring her to eternal life. You can find her story in my book The Gods of Informatics.
Now I have a bit of a laugh at this idea of capturing her mind and putting her Bainbridge profile data into an avatar called CyberXstrike. Thoughts came back to me at a time when I copied Hans Daucher’s idea from 1977 when he used eye movement trackers with his students to find out “what makes a work of art a good work of art.” I published data on viewers’ impressions of digital art in Computer Graphics & Art in 1978. Back then, computer art was still created with plotters or printouts (no graphic cards, no screens the way we know them now).
