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The personal digital twin is gaining momentum in the industry and while some see it as a savior in health and personal development, others see it as a potential risk for manipulation. One such company, Mind Bank Ai, is on a quest to move humanity forward by being the world’s first and most trusted guardians of personal digital twin technology. The future “grandchildren” of Siri and Alexa are actually you and me and our digital twins are able to help us self-care, self-reflect for personal growth, and live forever through data.
The personal digital twin is one of the rising figures of the digital transformation, whose heart is Artificial Intelligence. Let’s analyze the advantages and risks of the new “virtual representation” of reality. And let’s try to understand how to avoid the adverse side effects. We live in exciting times, but it is good to become aware of them and evaluate their criticality and positivity before being submerged in a new world where man could have few freedoms.
What is a Personal Digital Twin?
We talk more and more about the introduction of machines in the world of work and our daily life. But are we really ready to divide the days with our digital twin? According to Emil Jimenez the founder and CEO of Mind Bank Ai, “We are entering a world of AI Enhanced Humanity. Our digital twins will be used to increase our productivity, personal development and health longevity by constantly helping us to self-care.”
With “personal digital twin,” we mean a digital replica that reproduces some of our repetitive actions that can be programmed to learn how we think. Today we can already speak of “Personal Digital Twin,” whereas there is already a digital replica of each of us realized through our business network.
Pleasantly we could say that today human beings are made up of 60% water and the rest of the data, disclosed more or less consciously on the web. Scholars confirm that the possibility of creating an alter ego for each of us is accurate, even if the level of prejudices towards this technological advance must be lowered, which will never completely override human knowledge.
The digital twin technology was initially developed for space exploration programs and has gone to be commonplace in engineering and architecture. Engineers were able to take into account the loads that are on the shuttles and satellites outside the Earth’s atmosphere and run simulations with digital twins. The usefulness of this approach became evident for individuals and devices on the planet, so the system was redesigned for individual products or entire enterprises. So digital twins are virtual models of objects existing in the real world. Sensors are used to transfer the actual parameters of the object to the server and process it with specialized software, and potentially possible situations are calculated using the IT infrastructure.
Towards a Mind-Technology Symbiosis
By trusting virtual tools, we delegate to them considerable powers that we, as individuals, are starting to lose, for example, memory, judgment, imagination, and privacy. The signs that technological developments will also bring the self into the machine are so evident that we are talking about the “Digital Twin.” Most of our personal data is already available to others.
All of this can undoubtedly be useful if the plausible scenario that combines technologies for smartphones and digital assistants will mean digital copies not only of our present self but of every detail of our life. Being equipped with a database, machine learning, and artificial intelligence twin with relevant tools will likely give each of us access to vastly increased cognitive powers. The more we use those powers, the less we will depend on our internal faculties: think, imagine, plan, design, judge, choose, self-reflection, decide. What will remain of our precious “free will” and autonomy? We will be increasingly tracked down to the smallest detail, so nothing will be left to chance, not even our behavior.
At the gates is the symbiotic relationship with the technology in which we are involuntarily engaging: an overwhelming but subtle exchange between psychology and technology. Our inner content is shifting, while within us, the motivations of the choices begin to be guided by the algorithms that take possession of our innermost.
The Positive Effects of Introducing a Personal Digital Twin
The advantages of using virtual models with the characteristics of real objects are apparent:
- The personal digital twin will revolutionize the Health industry. Having all of your cognitive, biometrical and genetic information in one personal digital footprint allows you to run various models to predict the onset of ailments, and track your progress over long periods of time. This type of data is gold for the person that wants to self-care, and for the health practitioner that wants to have clear insights into their patient’s health history.
- Personal development through self-reflection and coaching. Personal coaches, leadership trainers, and behavioral therapists use self-reflection as a means to connect with the person and allow them to realize their weaknesses and strengths. With platforms like Mind Bank Ai the personal digital twin will be able to assist these individuals by giving them a feedback loop with data related to their cognitive state through psycholinguistic measurement. These are things that trained professionals learn during the course of their careers but are usually not able to quantify it with actual data.
- Immortality through data. Today we have the ability to store our wisdom, stories, voices, images, and our entire lives that will leave a footprint of our existence. However, all of this data is completely dispersed and to some extent not very useful. The personal digital twin will be the data lake of the human by creating a true source of quality personalized data that will be the true representation of the person. Using conversational NLP technology the personal digital twin is now able to sound like you and in the near future it will be able to tell your story and live forever on your behalf.
This technology is no longer science fiction since, albeit, in a very limited way, the emergence of digital copies of ourselves has already begun at micro and macro levels.
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