Not your fathers avatar: The real future of artificial intelligence [Video]

Forget what you thought you knew about AI. Meet the future: digital avatars that think, learn and work like humans. Are you ready for the revolution?

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Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) is the latest milestone in the “AAA” journey, which began with the automation of the mundane, lead to augmentation — mostly machine-driven but lately also expanding into human augmentation — and has built up to artificial intelligence. Artificial? What if business users started developing alter-ego avatars that performed real business functions? If this is one aspect of the future of AI, what will be the implications for technology leaders? 

In February 2024, Bjorn Jesch, CIO at German asset management and investment firm DWS, posted a video of his own AI-built avatarproviding a glimpse of how he saw the market developing in the near- to mid-term. While avatars are by no means, a new phenomenon — many abound in the esoteric worlds of gaming, …