Ghislaine Boddington aspires to be interconnected with an AI digital companion that advises and supports her, keeps her healthy and represents her around the world. A twin that could live on after her death, or for as long as someone pays the subscription. In practical terms, a digital bio-twin is made up of continuously measured multiple biological signals from your body. These might include your heartbeat, breath, temperature and muscle tension, as well as food intake, exercise and mental health - all fed into an avatar body. By combining AI and, for example, scanning our bodies and faces, cloning our voice and mannerisms, our virtual twin will become more and more like us. In a journey that involves an MRI heart scan, dancing in a Belgium basement and a discussion about digital death, Ghislaine learns how to build her own digital twin. (Photo: Composite image of Ghislaine Boddington. Credit: Ghislaine Boddington)
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Imagine that when you are born, a digital version of you is also created.
A virtual you that is tethered to you, owned by you and grows up and learns and works with you.
Supports your physical and mental health, your well being and development from first heartbeat to digital death.
I'm Guilen Boddington.
Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
As a senior researcher at the University of Greenwich, I study the merging of our physical and digital bodies in me and my digital twin.
I'll be investigating how digital human twins could be a potential near future for many of us.
I'll be sharing my personal voice notes and discovering what it takes to create my own digital twin.
I will come down just to let you prepare it.
I will say three to one and then you can start.
From all the data gathered by the tech many of us already use, such as smartphones and wearables, to a true virtual AI version of our.
I'll be exploring the moral and the ethical implications of building a digital me.
We'll have to think about how to protect one's digital twin.
Kind of like you have to protect your image now.
Can say again please?
Oh, Houston, we've had a problem.
Roger main B undervolt standby 13.
We're looking at it.