You've seen those horror movies where a mad scientist harvests human brains keeps them alive in big jars filled with saline and hooked up to all sorts of wires and electrodes so that they retain their mental faculties? Hold that thought.
MyCberTwin allows you to quickly create compelling virtual personalities called CyberTwins that interact with "friends, family, colleagues or customers" on your behalf---without you being there. According to the MyCyberTwin web site you can " give your CyberTwin some ideas of things you want it to chat about. If you feed your CyberTwin content from your own IM conversations, email or blog.
It will actually learn to talk and be just like you! It will be your digital personality and represent YOU online.
Your CyberTwin lives online at MyCyberTwin.com and has a home address. For example, if you created a CyberTwin named 'Fred', its home address would be http://www.mycybertwin.com/fred and you can issue this to people so they can chat to it via an ordinary web browser."
I am interested in the site's suggestion that you can use the avatar to run a survey, answer FAQs, etc., so I'll probably give it a try. But the idea of having an avatar that can function without me, well, maybe now you can understand the reference to brains in jars.
Source: MyCyberTwin - Let Your Personality Shine Online via Fast Company blog.
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