Digital and cloning, these two words seem to be popping up more and more frequently in today's tech world. As data and information become increasingly important in a digital world, cloning presents unique opportunities for biology and medicine. However, what is the intersection of these two fields? How does digital technology affect the future of cloning? Today we will discuss what kind of sparks will be brought by the collision of numbers and clones.
The rise of digital twins and artificial intelligence technology, coupled with the advancement of 3D graphics technology, has once again evoked the human impulse to create digital life. For traditional digital characters, every move is designed (drawn), and the content of the dialogue is also fixed. Now that we have more advanced technology, can we make it "smarter" and more realistic? Thus, digital humans were created in this way.
A digital human is still a virtual character created on a digital system. As mentioned earlier, the difference between it and traditional digital characters is that it has a certain degree of intelligence. With the support of knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence technology, digital humans can use machine learning to train massive amounts of data based on video, audio, text and other real-life behavior information, so that they can behave more like real people. Because of this, we can also refer to digital humans as "digital clones" (hereinafter referred to as "digital humans").
Digihuman can be traced back to 2007, the sound source library developed based on the speech synthesis program - "Hatsune Miku". At that time, the relevant technologies were not yet mature, so digital humans basically appeared in the form of a two-dimensional image. In 2016, the artificial intelligence virtual anchor "Kizuna" was born, setting off a new wave of digital humans. In 2021, after the metaverse concept became popular, digital humans became even more popular, attracting the pursuit of countless companies and capital.
According to statistics, there are currently more than 30,000 digital people worldwide. These digital humans are widely used in education and training, financial insurance, medical care, classroom presentations, games, e-commerce and other fields, serving as virtual customer service, virtual tour guide, virtual host, virtual anchor and other roles.
The emergence of digital humans has brought a lot of convenience to people. First of all, digital humans can replace humans in some dangerous, tedious, and high-intensity jobs, such as working in nuclear power plants and exploring in space. Second, digital humans can save humans a lot of time and cost. For example, in the medical field, digital humans can provide doctors with diagnosis and treatment plans, and provide patients with telemedicine services, saving the time and cost of humans waiting in line at hospitals. In addition, digital humans can create more forms of entertainment and art for human beings, and bring more satisfaction to people's spiritual life.
However, the emergence of digital humans also brings some problems and challenges. First of all, the intelligence and simulation of digital humans are getting higher and higher, which may have a subversive impact on the existing social structure and occupational form. Second, due to the virtual nature of digital human beings, some ethical and legal issues may arise, such as the rights of digital human beings, the privacy protection of digital human beings, etc.
To sum up, as a new form of virtual life, digital human has not only created a lot of convenience for human beings, but also brought many problems and challenges. We need to study the development and application of digital humans more deeply, and explore the relationship between digital humans and humans, so as to better deal with the various challenges brought about by the era of digital humans.