This clip from 2000 of someone creating a digital doppelganger is weird.

This episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World features people weirdly excited about internet radio and online gaming. But it’s this bit about creating a digital avatar and trying to capture your personality in code that feels oddly prescient in the age of AI chatbots, but also deeply dystopian. [Media: https://youtu.be/zrvqWEeQcmE?t=730]

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