Personal Assistants Cloning Yourself

Digital Twins taken beyond the basic idea.  In some ways this is much harder than building an assistant.   We sought something like it when we replaced green coffee managers with expert systems in the 90s.   But must it be an avatar?

Why you’ll fire Siri and do the job yourself
In the world of A.I., the best virtual assistant might turn out to be your virtual self.   By Mike Elgan,   Contributing Columnist, Computerworld |
  
Why you’ll fire Siri and do the job yourself
In the world of A.I., the best virtual assistant might turn out to be your virtual self.

Have you ever wished you could clone yourself? Imagine how much you could accomplish.

The future of A.I. will make something kind of like that possible. By scanning your face and voice and observing how you talk and what you know, future A.I. could build a virtual assistant that’s a virtual you.    Sounds like science fiction. But one company is already working on it. .... 

A company based in Pasadena, Calif., called ObEN built a 3D A.I. avatar technology that produced what it calls a “personal A.I.,” or PAI. .... " 

ObEN Blog with proposed examples of use.