You may soon be able to catch up with friends and relatives who have passed away -- on your computer. Dr. Pratik Desai, a Silicon Valley computer scientist who has founded multiple Artificial Intelligence platforms, boldly predicts that a human being's "consciousness" could be uploaded onto digital devices by the end of the year. "Start regularly recording your parents, elders and loved ones," he urged Friday in a Twitter thread that's since racked up more 5.7 million views and tens of thousands of responses. "With enough transcript data, new voice synthesis and video models, there is a 100% chance that they will live with you forever after leaving physical body," Desai continued. "This should be even possible by end of the year."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he was "a little bit scared" of ChatGPT and admitted that his technology would likely destroy "a lot of current jobs." The CEO of the company behind ChatGPT, likely the world's most famous AI chatbot, admitted that he was "a little bit scared" of his company's creation during an interview with ABC News. "We've got to be careful here," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during an interview Thursday. That's because the technology itself, he explained, was extremely powerful and could be dangerous. "I think people should be happy that we are a little bit scared of this," the 37-year-old tech guru said.

In September last year, the young Silicon Valley entrepreneur Serge Faguet posted an article on the tech website Hacker Noon. It was headlined: "I'm 32 and spent $200k on biohacking. Significantly more intelligent, too, he added, with an increased sex drive that dovetailed nicely with his newfound ease at "picking up girls". These last two points especially grabbed the attention of the site's hundreds of thousands of mainly male readers. The comments section under Faguet's story is full of admiration for his data-driven, problem-solving approach. The article currently has 15,000 upvotes. His follow-up about increasingyour intelligence by having sex and micro-dosing MDMA is the site's second most read article of 2018. In his working life as CEO, or former CEO, of a string of international startups, Faguet is ruthlessly pragmatic. He applies the same approach to his sole hobby: extreme biohacking. Biohacking is a buzzword that unites the hi-tech, wellness, anti-ageing and science ...