So you’re a blogger huh? Maybe even a semi-popular blogger who gets a lot of random e-mail queries from the public.
You may be interested in MyCyberTwin, a tool that lets you “clone yourself” on your blog. Visitors can then ask your clone questions and get responses that reflect what you might really say. The service is a free beta for now, but you should read the fine print carefully before you sign up. Imagine the marketing value of all that data you’ll have to give away to create a realistic virtual copy of your personality online.
Here is an in-depth article:
“We wanted to build software clones of humans that learn about you and effectively function on your behalf,” says Liesl Capper, cofounder and CEO of RelevanceNow. “The problem with creating a chat AI is that it’s very laborious, trying to think of variations on what people will say and then creating responses. Building one has always been a labor of love that takes months, if not years. What we have built is the ability for people to make a cybertwin really quickly.”
One small step in the quest for AI.
I imagine the logical conclusion to projects like MyCyberTwin being a full personality clone; an idea which amounts to virtual immortality. How long will it be before we have methods to either upload or realistically simulate a human personality? I predict between two and three decades.
For the deep thinkers with time on your hands, I’ve included a fascinating list of AI projects, including human-machine interfaces, a critical component of the personality clone concept.