Could a digital twin make you into a 'superworker'?

Could a digital twin make you into a 'superworker'?Just nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMaryLou CostaTechnology ReporterAndy BarnesRichard Skellett has a digital version of himself"Digital Richard" is the AI twin Richard Skellett has been building for the past three years. Bound within the confines of a screen, Digital Richard looks largely two dimensional, but he's no ordinary chatbot.Digital Richard knows everything Skellett knows. He was built as a small language model which used ChatGPT to digest all of Richard's meetings, calls, documents, presentations and more. It was then refined to follow Skellett's way of thinking and problem solving.The end product is a text-based window which Skellett can consult, helping him make business decisions and presentation to clients, as part of his work as chief analyst for research and design at technology consultancy Bloor Research.Digital Richard even helps Skellett manage his personal life, with tabs labelled "family" and "admin" that are off limits to work colleagues, who can otherwise access Digital Richard to ask business-related questions.Digital Richard has since served as a blueprint to create digital twins for Bloor Research's 50-strong team across the UK, Europe, US and India.For example, an analyst who was planning to retire has been able to do so in a phased way, using their digital twin to take on some of their workload.The company was also able to tap into a member of the marketing team's digital twin when they went on maternity leave, rather than hiring a temporary replacement.A "Digital Me", as Bloor Research is calling it, is now offered as standard to anyone who joins.Another 20 other companies have already been testing the technology, and it will be made widely available to others later this year. "In this environment, having a Digital Me is not optional if you want to operate effectively. It becomes part of how you work,...