Clone yourself virtually
Friday, 20 April 2007 | 557 readers so far
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.
1 April 22nd, 2007 at 12:43 am
Gia Kelly says:
Hello,
I read and follow your blog on a weekly basis. I am a college student and I am doing my research on the opinions of soldiers in combat and active duty. I’d like to know what your opinions are. I have made an anonymous survey. It’s located @ http://www.stonedsoul.com/quest490 . It’s okay of you publish this e-mail.
Gia Kelly
2 April 24th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
the will to exist says:
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3 April 25th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Trevor says:
I answered your survey.
4 December 30th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Dizzy Thinks: Clone yourself with a cyber twin says:
[...] Clone yourself with a cyber twin I don’t know whether people have played very much with Artificial Intelligence bots (AI). Alice Bot is the classic of these, but I’ve just stumbled across another site - which I think may be a variation on Alice to be honest. I’m not sure if the concept will work, but, imagine you were someone that received done of emails every day with requests or questions. Imagine if you could have a virtual artificial intelligence bot, a, shall we say, cybertwin, that people could speak to on your behalf?That’s exactly what MyCyberTwin.com is offering people. The project is very much in Beta at the moment, and remains free. As I say I;m not sure if it will work, I had a conversation with one of the companies founders earlier, Liesl Capper, it wasn;t exactly perfect and I managed to confuse her quite quickly, so there’s no pass of the Turing Test quite yet.Still, AI bots can be amusing, and if you keep your sentence structure simple and not to convoluted you can actually hold a conversation with them which flows. Just don’t ask about the nature of being, use slang, and try to avoid synonyms.For a few more details read here. [...]