As I’ve written about previously, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have pioneered the creation of the AI entity known as Google. This is an achievement of its own. But their real ambition is actually something else: immortality. Thinking about it, it is kind of obvious, it is the only thing money can’t buy (for now at least).
Larry, being the more adventurous of the duo, was the first one to try AI fusion. What this means is basically fusing himself with Google. A naive explanation would be that he is letting himself being controlled by Google, becoming nothing more than a puppet. The reality though is much more intricate. Google can not be compared with a human person, it is more like a conglomerate, a zaibatsu if you will.
By fusing with Google, Larry is expanding this conglomerate and at the same time making himself immaterial, and thus eternal. The first public demonstration was the somewhat awkward 2013 Google IO keynote. It looks that the control of his muscles has been perfected, but the control of his vocal chords is still less than stellar. It may have caused a few million dollars donation to the Voice Health Institute, a drop in the bucket basically, but overall the fusion seems to be successful.
What would be a bigger challenge for Google is to lose the awkwardness, not an easy task for an AI. But in Google we trust.
