Andy Halliday

knowledge available out there, but it's on a narrower domain that way.

It's not about my full life history that I was saying is a big, big load.

And that's the third one, which is for personal legacy.

And that's like posthumous AI avatars for families, but also just, you know, a digital twin of me that's more accessible than I am, you know, to the progeny that I have out there in the

Imagine if you have quite a number of children and grandchildren and they all want to be able to consult with your co-grandpa, then that's a bigger thing.

That personal legacy preservation, we've got corporate knowledge retention, a very important application of this.

Employee expertise and institutional memory so that we don't forget things that are essential to avoid mistakes of the past.

And then influencer expert accessibility.

So I wanted to paint that.

And then I'm going to share with you after we hear from Beth, I'm going to share with you the main platforms out there because there's been $150 million of venture capital.

raised for these purposes, just these purposes, human knowledge, digital twinning.

What I learned in the process of building that startup, we got venture capital funding for a total of close to $7 million, which was back in 2004, was a big series A round.

What I learned in that process is that one, you're probably the one person who's really going to be interested in all of that collection of information that's going to be the foundation of your digital twin.

Think about all the work that's necessary and will you get personally some usefulness out of it?

The second thing is that it's virtually impossible to make this multimedia.

Dennis Daily, Because the the formats of the archives that I have for my family legacy, if you will, as a part of that are you know in the VHS some eight millimeter video, but I have literally.

more than probably thousands of hours of video tapes, like magnetic tape video, sitting in boxes somewhere in a storage shed on this property.

I don't have the time in my life remaining to look at them in order to figure out what's on them, much less decide, oh, this is a little clip of, oh, no, I'm going to take, oh, not 30 seconds, but I want 45 seconds of this one to put into the AI.

You know, it's like...

it's not going to be multimedia.