A "powerful enough" AI isn't magic: it cannot recover information that no longer exists
Technically, it can of course - through inference. Any information we have recovered about our history - history itself - is all inference used to recover lost information.
Even with successful cryonics, you still end up with a probability distribution over the person's brain wiring matrix - it just has much lower variance, requiring less inference/guesswork to get a 'successful' result (however one defines that).
Agreed with your last paragraph that crossing the uncanny valley will be difficult and there is much room for public backlash. It's so closely related to AI tech that one mostly implies the other.
A "powerful enough" AI isn't magic: it cannot recover information that no longer exists
Technically, it can of course - through inference.
Sounds like Hollywood image enhancement, where a few blurry pixels are magically transformed into a pin-sharp glossy magazine photograph.
I could point out that if you can infer the information, then by definition it still exists, but the real point here is just how powerful an AI can be and what inferences are possible. Let's say that yesterday I rolled a dice ten times without looking at the result. Can a...
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