AI Definitions: Digital Twins

Digital Twins – Digital twin technology is about replicating something physical in a virtual environment. The twin might be a copy of our physiologies, personalities or the objects around us, such as a video avatar of a person or a statistical model of a complex phenomenon (like earth or weather). The models update automatically as new data becomes available and excels best at statistics-heavy applications. For instance, by analyzing large quantities of health data, it can provide more personalized treatments for a patient. Similar to synthetic users, digital twins is more about specific individuals than group-level descriptors. Digital twins raise serious ethical questions related to consent, misrepresentation and biases in data.

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