People will be resurrected by freezing their brains

Many companies, including Google, are working on ways to extend our lives by tens if not hundreds of years, but Humai wants to turn this idea on its head. Rather than making us live longer, the Los Angeles firm wants to bring people back from the dead using artificial intelligence.

Details about the technology are scarce, and it's not entirely clear whether it is a hoax or not, but the plans would involve freezing a person's brain before fitting it with a 'personality' chip. MailOnline has contacted the company for more information.

Founder Josh Bocanegra has assured his critics that he is serious about human resurrection and believes it could even be possible within the next 30 years.

It explained that it plans to use artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to 'store data of conversational styles, behavioural patterns, thought processes and information about how a person's body functions from the inside-out.'

This data would then be coded into 'multiple sensor technologies', which would be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human.

Plus, as the brain matures the company said it would use cloning nanotechnology to restore it and 'bring it back to life.'

Although Humai's idea of combining artificial intelligence with our bodies sounds similar to the concept of singularity, there is a distinction between the two.

Technological singularity is the development of  'superintelligence' brought about through the use of technology.

Put more simply, it is the idea of uploading our minds to computers and replacing body parts with machines while we are alive to make us smarter and fitter.

The first use of the term 'singularity' to refer to technological minds was by mathematician John von Neumann in the mid-1950s.

He said: 'Ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.'

It is not known how much the process would cost, or how the brains would be obtained but Mr Bocanegra told Australian PopSci: 'After death we'll freeze the brain using cryonics technology. 'When the technology is fully developed we'll implant the brain into an artificial body.'

He added that the artificial body functions would be controlled by the person's thoughts using brain waves, in a similar way advanced prosthetics are controlled today. When asked why he developed the idea, he said an artificial body will 'contribute to the human experience' and it will make death easier to accept.

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