⁍ Deepak Chopra, Biz Stone, Cyan Banister and Laura Ulloa were all digital personas created with artificial intelligence.
⁍ Each avatar was trained by the person they emulate.
⁍ They are meant to be digital extensions that can communicate on behalf of their real selves.

– “Close your eyes. Bring your awareness to your heart. And mentally ask yourself only four questions: Who am I? What do I want? What am I grateful for? What’s my purpose?” That’s how Deepak Chopra began a meditation he led last week over Zoom as part of a panel discussion at the Virtual Beings Summit in San Francisco, CNN reports. The group kept their eyes closed as Chopra continued to speak, but as he finished, everyone opened their eyes. “It went great!’ said Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. “So weird!’ I muttered, to myself. I don’t have anything against meditation. I was reacting to the fact that Chopra, Stone, venture capitalist Cyan Banister, and two other people I’d been viewing via Zoom— Laura Ulloa, a peace activist, and Lars Buttler, cofounder and CEO of the AI Foundation—were all digital personas created with artificial intelligence. That is, each one of them looked and sounded a lot like the person they were meant to represent. But these ersatz versions of their flesh-and-blood counterparts were built by Buttler’s AI Foundation, a San Francisco company and nonprofit that promotes the idea that each of us should have our own AI identity

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/business/bunkers-new-zealand-intl-hnk/index.html