AI breakthrough: next generation of digital twins nearly as insufferable as real humans
The recent breakthrough developments in AI are bringing supercomputing into the mainstream faster than Turing could ever have imagined. Where previously it was considered to be The Human Condition to lose one's car keys and forget a sibling's birthday, scientists predict such quirks will come naturally to the next generation of digital avatars.
We meet with Lucy (43), a lead developer at LOITRR, one of the many new behavioural plugins coming online that help consumers build an accurate digital mirror image online. "We specialize in digital procrastination, which turns out a very particular human behaviour and very hard to emulate in the binary universe of computing. Classic software flow is linear, and when computed results don't appear it's usually because of either a coding error halting the process, or a loop stalling it. Human procrastination on the other hand is much more subtle and has only come within reach for programmers with the rise of quantum computing. Instead of an instruction set being either active or inactive, we can now create an infinite spectrum of maybe-active. Just like you and me."
Another team in the news recently is Xcuse, which generates incredibly credible excuses for almost any disappointing context. Their latest release has been under scrutiny and might be artificially muzzled, now that the Justice department revealed a number of alibi's in high profile court cases were in fact completely fake. It shows this technology is evolving faster that regulators can adapt.
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