MIT’s Future Intergenerational Digital Immortal Expert
A Fortune 500 company CEO in his 80s is taking part in the MIT trial project, Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities. The beta MIT project is tested on the digital footprint of 25 volunteers with the goal of creating digital immortal personas. The trial aims to use social media data to train an avatar to behave like the human identity it is connected with. The avatar could share an opinion, his or her likes or dislikes, and create “emotional legacies”for loved ones left behind. ...
Researcher Hossein Rahnama is leading the MIT Media Lab project and sees the platform as supporting bereavement or as business research and expert knowledge transfer.
Rahnama asks the question, “can software agents become our digital heirs?” And his project works by using a “distributed machine intelligence network” to enable users to control their digital footprint and turn it into their digital persona, which in turn can be shared on social networks. ...
“We believe that by enabling our digital identity to perpetuate, we can significantly contribute to global expertise and enable a new form of an intergenerational collective intelligence.” ...
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