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April 18, 2025 - The David Knight Show
11:41
AI Twins Digital Clones: Personal Assistants/Something Family Can Interact with When You’re Gone
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Your AI digital twin can take your meetings and can comfort your loved ones when you die, it says.
And we've got several companies that are working on that.
If artificial intelligence could stand in for you, if it could take your meetings, if it could answer your emails, if it could even comfort your loved ones long after you're gone, would you let it?
They said that's no longer a hypothetical question.
A new class of startups is building digital twins using AI agents.
AI replicas of real people that act, speak, and remember just like their human counterparts.
And this story really kind of talks about two different aspects of this.
One of them is basically cloning you and what you believe.
In other words, training it to respond as you would respond.
To see the world as you would see the world and that type of thing.
The other one is talking about actually the AI agency.
Where you would have it do tasks for you and relieve you of all the mundane things that you do on a regular basis.
So it said, a new class of startups is starting digital twins, AI replicas of real people that act, speak, and remember, just like their human counterparts.
There is a serious attempt to capture human essence and machine form with real-world use cases and profound cultural implications.
Well, to capture the human essence, what is that really?
As we said, these post-humanists that are out there, these people who talk about singularity, how they're going to merge with machines, it's like how they're going to transfer their essence into some kind of a robot or something so that they can,
quote, live forever.
I said, well, you don't even know what you are if you think that.
You can't transfer your spirit in there.
You are more than a collection of memories or electrical impulses.
Somebody can make a copy of you, and that's a big part of what they're talking about here, is making a copy of people.
There is a company in South Korea that is called Re-Memory.
And they're pioneering the concept of allowing bereaved families to...
I have to speak to a hyper-realistic AI version of their deceased loved one.
And Deep Brain AI is the company behind the service.
They called it a tool for healing.
Critics have called it grotesque.
Dan Thompson, founder and CEO of a company called Sensei, didn't set out to build a startup.
He was actually writing a book.
He said, I'd hit my head.
I'd lost my memory.
That experience struck me with the fear.
Of disappearing.
That's a weird way to look at it.
Sensei creates AI replicas of individuals.
Thompson calls them virtual humans or personas.
Now this has become a thing, and they just refer to them as sonas.
Sonas. Instead of personas.
They've been trained using documents, videos, interviews, emails, and more.
They don't just sound like you, they act on your behalf.
He said, I've had people interact with my replica for hours on Telegram and not realize that it wasn't me.
He said, it's 90-95% indistinguishable.
So their Sonas, their replicas, are embedded into apps, websites, devices, and they learn continuously.
One interesting aspect is that the digital replica can continue to grow and evolve once the training is over.
If a replica evolves after death, though, is it still you?
You know, it's kind of interesting.
It makes me, when I see this, it makes me think of the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve.
And, you know, they've got the baby is making the journey from Krypton to Earth.
And as he's in there, his father, Marlon Brando, or at least a persona, a sona of him, right?
Is interacting and talking to the baby, answering questions, training the baby, and all the rest of this stuff.
And that's basically what their idea is.
It is to create a replica of you that would be able to interact, be interactive, but it would interact with people by imitating you.
Ben Gertzel is the chief AI advisor of a company called Twin Protocol.
Ben Gertzel is, as they call him, an AI luminary.
He's somebody that everybody in the AI industry really likes.
When I interviewed Hugo de Garris multiple times, he said, you know, you really need to talk to my friend, Ben Gertzel.
It's like, well, you know, Hugo was something of a skeptic about this stuff, right?
He was the opposite of Ray Kurzweil, and he was skeptical that this may not all turn out.
But Ben Gertzel was, but he was still, you know, pushing AI, still going to do it, and like all of his scientific friends, even though he thought he was creating a godlike superintelligence and that there was a good chance that it would kill us all,
he still wanted to do it.
Ben Gertzel was even more into that, so I never did interview Ben because I didn't want to push that.
But, you know, it was Ben Gertzel.
It was behind the company that made, and you've seen the picture, I've shown it as well in the past.
It was some female robot that they had there in Saudi Arabia that was, it didn't really have all that impressive, and animatronics wasn't all that much different from a Disney thing or something, but it was interactive, and they gave it citizenship in Saudi Arabia,
Mohammed bin Salman did, to show how trendy and progressive they are, that they've got a robot, they made the robot first.
Citizen of a country.
Well, that was Ben Gertzel who was behind that, but he's also there with Twin Protocol.
That company focuses on vaults, which are curated data sets of your books, your lectures, your videos, your voice memos.
You know, you've got about 6,000 hours of my stuff, you know.
Usually a great one of those things.
An AI layer that captures your tone, your style, your diction, your intent.
An interactive version of you that responds with your knowledge and in your voice.
An AI twin isn't about perfect replication, they said.
It's about purpose.
It's about legacy conversations, professional coaching.
Curation matters, they said.
Your AI twin, however, when we talk about the agents, it might be your calendar assistant.
It might be your family archivist, your lifelong productivity partner.
It could become a tool of self-reflection, they said.
Your twin can actually show you insights about yourself.
It's like a mirror, but smarter.
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Who's the smartest of them all?
Not you, dummy.
You're asking me questions.
I'm just AI.
You start seeing patterns, though, in your own thinking if you do this, they said.
And it also is set up to work with the Singularity Net ecosystem.
That's what I'm saying.
These people are fully on board with transhumanism, post-humanism, cyborgs, and all the rest of this stuff.
It is a very evil secular movement.
Users maintain control over their vaults, over their replicas, right down to their ability to shut it all off.
It's integrated within the blockchain.
To verify the source of all training data, in a world of deep fakes, provenance is power.
Provenance, in other words, who created it, right?
And just, I haven't talked about it for a while, but Coalition for Content, Provenance, and Authentication, the CCPA.
I refer to it as the Chinese Communist Party of America.
But that's a coalition that's put together by hardware and software groups.
We had ARM and the...
Processors that are part of that was the hardware.
Intel was a part of it.
Microsoft, as well as Adobe on the software side, and then they team with government and media because they want to be able to put this on machines and stop you from creating written work,
audio work, still picture memes, video, anything.
If you are not an approved person, Then they will have this Coalition for Content Provenance and Authentication.
They're going to see who created it.
And if you are not on their approved list of creators, you won't even be able to upload the stuff.
That's how they stop things from going viral.
So yeah, that all fits into this stuff.
Curated AI twins could serve as mentors, tutors, or interactive textbooks.
Bringing first-hand voices into classrooms or allowing students to ask questions through a digital version.
Of a historical figure.
You know, like Superman interacting with his Marlon Brando father there.
We're building trusted extensions.
Your twins should be able to do work for you without ever forgetting that it's yours.
Isn't that great?
Also, it makes me think of that comedy with Michael Keaton called Multiplicity.
Where he's able to go in and just clone physical copies of himself.
Come out the same age and maturity as he is instantaneously, right?
But, you know, they're helping him with work.
It's basically an AI agent.
So these people are doing, except their agent is going to work in the virtual world.
His were actually physical.
And so it was great.
It freed him up for all kinds of stuff.
And then his clone decided that it needed help.
And so it made a copy of itself.
And, you know, just like if you've got a photocopier, A copy of a copy isn't quite as sharp, and his copy that he cloned really wasn't very sharp.
And that was where the comedy was coming in.
Anyway, Harvard research suggests that a well-used personal assistant could recover up to 45% of a person's time, even if an AI twin gives you back 20%.
That would be transformative, wouldn't it?
What could you do with that time?
Who could you spend with it?
Again, that's the question that was answered by that, that they had a lot of fun with in that movie, multiplicity.
*music*
The Common Man.
They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
They created Common Past to track and control us.
Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple.
Unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hire.
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