Artificial intelligence and machine learning can make this a reality.

Artificial Intelligence is omnipresent. In this data-driven world, we are leaving digital footprints with so much of our data that can be used to do a million things. With the amount of data in our phones, laptops, and tablets, anyone who has access to it can make a picture of who we are. Even through our inbox and browser history. If you use any of the Google services like Google maps, people who have access to it can see all the places you have travelled, near or far. And you know what, artificial intelligence can bring that data to life in the form of a digital twin.

You Can Become An AI Clone

Creating a digital twin is a possibility. This might stir up mixed emotions in you, but it can become a reality.  Recently, Hour One, an AI company, collaborated with YouTubers Taryn Southern to make a fully digital creation (AI Clone) as a part of her experiment. Taryn’s AI clone can converse in multiple languages, create original content, and communicate its thoughts with people across the globe. All Taryn has to do is write and upload the script. Within a few minutes, the AI technology creates a video of her AI clone speaking from the script with a variety of backgrounds and soundtrack.

This technology is different from Deepfake videos. Hour One is capable of creating new content that looks as if a real person is speaking it. AI Taryn also joked that she can now make new YouTube videos without the actual Taryn moving an inch.

Is This Good Or Spooky?

There are several ongoing debates about AI having the potential to “cross the line.” In the 2013 movie ‘Her’, the world was shown a glimpse into the future where relationships between humans and AI bots bloomed. In 2013, it was futuristic, but now, it’s almost a reality.

Replika, another AI company, allows users to create an AI buddy that understands the user’s thoughts and feelings. It is created with an aim to improve emotional well-being and improve coping skills. The bot also encourages people who find it hard to open up to talk about their innermost feelings without judgement. With access to so much personal data, people speculate that Replika has the potential to create problems.

Your Digital Footprint Lasts Forever!

By now you understand that your digital footprint will turn into the virtual version of yourself. But did you ever wonder, what will happen to all that data when you pass away? You can either nominate someone to close all your accounts or let it continue to be a part of the digital world. If you want someone to redact all your data, all the data generated from every single click, voice, video, and verbal interaction should be erased which is easier said than done.

Microsoft is working on a patent to explore how the company can combine personal digital content like images, videos, messages, etc. and machine learning to train a chatbot to mimic how that person would sound as a person. Now the question is, can having a digital twin result in greater productivity?

Right now, there’s a thin line between our digital and physical worlds. Virtual data or footprint that we are leaving behind is providing us with digital immorality and our virtual twins are waiting to soar its wings. Our data lives a life of its own, and now what we have to think about is whether we want it to or not.

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Goal is for military mechanics and medics to perform tasks within and beyond their skills with help from real-time AI and augmented reality assistants.

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that perceives the environment, reasons about physical tasks, and models the user — all in real-time.

Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., issued a broad agency announcement (HR001121S0015) last Friday for the Perceptually Enabled Task Guidance (PTG) project.

The goal is to enable military mechanics, medics, and other specialists to perform tasks within and beyond their skills by providing just-in-time feedback and instructions for physical tasks.

The AI will capitalize on commercially available sensor technologies to see what the user sees and hear what the user hears, and will provide information and instruction to the user using augmented reality.

Military personnel must perform an increasing number of tasks and more complex tasks than ever before, DARPA researchers explain. Mechanics, for example, must repair more types of sophisticated machines and platforms, and Medics must perform more procedures over extended periods of time.

The goal of the PTG program is to make users more versatile by expanding their skills and more proficient by reducing their errors by using AI assistants that provide just-in-time visual and audio feedback.

Users of PTG assistants will wear head-mounted cameras and microphones so that the assistant can see and hear what the user does. Users also will wear augmented reality headsets that enable assistants to provide auditory and graphics feedback.

The assistant will learn about the user’s tasks by ingesting knowledge from checklists, illustrated manuals, training videos, and related information.

Users may ask the assistant questions like “what do I do next?” When a user makes a critical mistake, the system should warn the user and suggest remedial action. When a task is new to a user, the assistant should walk the user through the necessary steps.

PTG technology will take advantage of recent advances in deep learning for video and speech analysis, automated reasoning for task and plan monitoring, and augmented reality for human-computer interfaces.

The program, moreover, is looking for ways to address four key problems: knowledge transfer, perceptual ground, perceptual attention, and user modeling.

Knowledge transfer will enable AI assistants to learn from instructions intended for humans, with an emphasis on checklists, illustrated manuals, and training videos.

Perceptual grounding will align the objects, settings, actions, sounds, and words recognized by an assistant with the terms it uses to describe and model tasks, so as to map observations to its task knowledge.

Perceptual attention will enable assistants to pay attention to what’s relevant to tasks, while ignoring extraneous stimuli, and respond to unexpected events that may alter a user’s goals or suggest a new task.

User modeling, meanwhile, will help the AI assistant determine how much information to present to users and when to do so, taking into account what the users, a physical model of what the users are doing, and a model of how well the user can pay attention based on his emotional state.

The PTG program is seeking proposals in two technical areas — the first for fundamental research into knowledge transfer, perceptual grounding, perceptual attention, and user modeling; and the second for integrated demonstrations of assistants for mechanics, medics, or aircraft pilots.

DARPA experts will brief industry virtually from 1 to 4:45 p.m. on 18 March 2021 via Zoom Webinar. Register for the briefings online at https://www.schafertmd.com/DARPA/I2O/PTG/PD/?p=registration. More information about the PTG proposers day briefings is online at https://www.schafertmd.com/DARPA/I2O/PTG/PD/.

Companies interested should submit abstracts no later than 31 March 2021, and full proposals no later than 14 May 2021, to the DARPA BAA Website at https://baa.darpa.mil. More information is online at https://beta.sam.gov/opp/39d76d1a5c684eb0a6c834f17aaa678d/view.

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