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What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?

Robin Hanson · TED

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Meet the "ems" -- machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever. Glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth.

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TED
Department
TED2017
Speaker
Robin Hanson
Year
2017
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Economics
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TED
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