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About NextLife Emerging…

Can Big Data using artificial intelligence (AI), fusion technology, and predictive analytics generate your behavior in future life circumstances?   If so, does it matter if the corporeal you no longer exists?  Who would care about that surviving “virtual” person?

NextLife™ believes that while the corporeal reality of a person may vanish, their thoughts and feelings during their sentient existance remain in their Big Data trail. Teased out by AI, fusion technology, and predictive analytics, these can be made accessible to family, friends and relatives, easing life’s transition through recollections, reflections and more importantly, informing forward looking life choices via verbal avatorial dialogue.

At the time of its initial launch in 2015 (Provisional Patent 62/118,581 for this was filed February 20, 2015), the NextLife™ proposal to develop and monetize a virtual human from its Big Data trail could reasonably have been considered “…crazy… things that look like they are just nuts” (Andreessen).  But that has changed dramatically following the ideation of this by notable futurists on the MSM , and now Facebook’s “Metaverse”.

Most significantly, the market for such a product has also shown movement by other enablers such as Google, “…they want to focus on…human-like artificial intelligence and life-extension technology…” . (Indeed, Google seems to be following the approach suggested by NextLife™ in its submission to Google last January 8, 2019 for Google’s “AI Impact Challenge “.)

Of particular interest though is the recent news from NVIDIA Omniverse… “The science-fiction metaverse is near ”, and Facebook, Roblox See the ‘Metaverse’ as Key to the Internet’s Next Phase .

Provisional Patent 62/118,581 for this was filed February 20, 2015.

Statement of Work

The First Priority of this raise is to launch an app for a memoir that sells and generates a profit. This is referred to as the “Initial” or “First Product”. Note that this product is relatively well defined and within the capability of existing technology.

A Second Priority is the evolvement of the First Product by measured, incremental improvements leading to an augmented virtual reality display inhabited by the deceased as a sentient being along with viewer(s) inserted and scaled to screen. This product has seen a prototype stage . Commensurately, funding beyond the First Product is anticipated to involve discussions and negotiations leading to a funding model suitable to both funder(s) and NextLife ™.

Citations for Prima Facie Case – Why I think this is possible:

“With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends… We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” Eric Schmidt (Oct. 4, 2010)

• AI closes in on sensing and exhibiting all human emotions ,
• Dr. Michio Katu predicts digital immortality from Big Data , FOX News (Jan 5, 2017),
• Huang called the third part of the Omniverse, NVIDIA CloudXR, a sort of stargate that allows users to use virtual reality (AR) to “teleport into Omniverse” and AI to use augmented reality (AR) to “teleport out…   Every few decades, technologies converge to enable a whole new thing – Omniverse is such an invention,” stated Huang. “The science-fiction metaverse is near. ”
• Zuckerberg launches “Metaverse” .

Can software re-create a virtual person after they die?

• “We have an understanding of what our physical beings are and how we protect our physical beings. But all of us right now will have also a digital being….. our digital twin. The faster we understand that, I think the faster we find solutions for it. ”, (March 21, 2019).
• The Jessica Simulation:  Love and loss in the age of A.I. .

Can a “minimum viable product” be realized:

• AI closes in on sensing and exhibiting all human emotions ,
• Is a privacy algorithm possible? (Apple),
• The “dark side” dilemma of human existence, Facebook, Rushing Into Live Video, Wasn’t Ready for Its Dark Side , Regarding a deceased user’s Google account , How do I request content from the Facebook account of a deceased person?
• Interim solutions for the “dark side” , Web immortality: the social media sites that keep you alive in the digital world,  About Dead Social ; Privacy (Apple): Apple Rolls Out Privacy-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg Huang Metaverse Begins

• Mark in the metaverse Casey Newton, The Verge (July 22, 2021)
  “…a Metaverse would raise questions both familiar and strange about how the virtual space is governed, how its contents would be moderated, and what its existence would do to our shared sense of reality.”
• Cool Or Creepy? Facebook Is Building An AI That Sees The World Like Humans Do
  Facebook’s Ego4D project aims to create an AI that will provide AR cues in daily lives to help users and sounds like a true glimpse of its metaverse…   NADEEM SARWAR  (OCT 14, 2021)
• Virtual world builder: Nvidia positions Omniverse Enterprise as its metaverse creation platform
  (Dan O’Shea Nov 9, 2021)
  A key use for the Omniverse Enterprise platform is the creation of digital twins of factories, office campuses, smart cities and even larger environments–the entire Earth, to use a pretty large example.
• Nvidia CEO says metaverse is ‘not hype’ and outlines massive Earth digital twin   (Matt Hamblen Nov 10, 2021)
  “Metaverse is not a hype,” Huang said in response to a question. During his keynote address on Tuesday at Nvidia’s GTC … he gave example upon example of how virtual worlds “are indistinguishable from the real world” even to the machines and humans operating within them.
• Nvidia presents grand unified theory of the Omniverse
   (Cohen March 22 ,2022)
  “…presents the Omniverse as a digital twin proving ground to test artificial intelligence powering autonomous AI-driven systems… for EV manufacturers building software-defined vehicles.”
• Elon Musk says people may download their memory personalities onto a humanoid robot Tesla is making
   (Sarah Jackson Mar 22, 2022)
  “…a general focused humanoid.”
• Jensen Huang answers questions about the company’s broad AI vision
   (Cohen March 23, 2022)
  Nvidia’s 3D simulation platform Omniverse takes central role as the way AI will learn about the real world.
• Mark Zuckerberg defies haters of the Metaverse, reveals his vision for a digital world…
   (Carmela Chirinos March 25, 2022)
  Zuckerberg reveals his vision for…the metaverse.

Humanity’s structures begin the existential change

• Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of Religion
  (Inglehart, September/October 2020)
• Democracy Is Losing Its Race With Disruption
  New technologies have accumulated tremendous power over our politics, economy, and lives—no
  one knows what to do about it. (Reich, Sahami, Weinstein, The Atlantic, Sept 5, 2021)
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