MyCyberTwin- create the cyber version of yourself

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MyCyberTwin- create the cyber version of yourself

by Emily Price Apr 4th 2007

You can't be available to chat online all the time, or can you? MyCyberTwin is a way for you to create a cyber version of yourself that can communicate with friends when you're not around.

By answering 79 questions about yourself you teach your twin what you might say when posed with different questions. In addition to answering the personality questions there is a virtual classroom where you can teach your twin lesson on how to be you with questions on everything from how you say hello to how you insult people. Essentially you can create a cyber version of yourself that is so much like you no one will notice when you're not around.

To have your Twin chat with your friends you can embed a flash window on your website or myspace page, or you can set your twin to chat for you in Microsoft Windows Live Messenger. You can check out what your twin says when you're not around by reading the chat logs on CyberTwin's website.

Your twin will have 500 conversations every 28 days for free, after that it starts charging for its services with 500 more credits running you $12.50 and 50,000 credits $349.50. For novelty purposes the free version is a pretty fun concept. Paying a bot that's just like you to chat on the internet? That's kind of creepy. The site still has a few kinks in it as well. I had to log back in mid survey when I created my twin this morning. Anyway, here I am. Chat with me by clicking the logo (unless 500 people beat you to it).

Chat to my CyberTwin online now!

[Via TechCrunch]

Tags: cyber twin, CyberTwin, online chatting, OnlineChatting, virtual chat, virtual me, VirtualChat, VirtualMe

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mysterius said 3:17PM on 4-04-2007

I held a semi-normal conversation for a while, before I got bored and decided to ask "the usual silly questions" that people prod chat-bots with, especially female ones... I hope none of it offends you. Just remember that they were directed to the chat-bot, not you. ;)

It also seemed to ask for feedback, and I tried to ask about the privacy policy, but the chat-bot didn't understand. An interesting concept, thought of course they'll need to improve it before they try to sell it. Perhaps they should make it more free during the testing period, and really cheap during the beta period? The current prices seem a bit steep.

Klippoth said 3:55PM on 4-04-2007

I had a pretty amusing conversation with it myself. Sometime the answers it gave were coincidentally eerie, although usually they were pretty generic. I couldn't see that it really had any pre-programmed responses at all, due to the extremely lackluster job it did with my questions. Maybe I should have used a list of pre-approved questions that it already has answers to...Oh well, it made for an interesting exercise in testing AI. It sure isn't going to fool anyone when it says that it will ask the "Real Emily" later...

Mark MacLeod said 4:18PM on 4-04-2007

Other than using this for a parlor trick, I'm not sure what the long term usefulness would be.

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Mark MacLeod said 4:49PM on 4-04-2007

Other than using this for a parlor trick, I'm not sure what the long term usefulness would be.

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