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How “Digital Twins” Could Help Us Predict the Future | Karen Willcox | TED

From health-tracking wearables to smartphones and beyond, data collection and computer modeling have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Advancements in these areas have given birth to “digital twins,” or virtual models that evolve alongside real-world data. Aerospace engineer Karen Willcox explores the incredible possibilities these systems offer across engineering, climate studies and medicine,…

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From health-tracking wearables to smartphones and beyond, data collection and computer modeling have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Advancements in these areas have given birth to “digital twins,” or virtual models that evolve alongside real-world data. Aerospace engineer Karen Willcox explores the incredible possibilities these systems offer across engineering, climate studies and medicine, sharing how they could lead to personalized medicine, better decision-making and more.

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42 Comments

  1. MegaBaellchen

    September 5, 2023 at 7:54 am

    Predict the future, wow, thats a new one, never has anyone tried that before. I’m sure by now it’s all working and with the help of AI we no longer have to care about the details…

    • Zero Cartwright

      September 5, 2023 at 6:56 pm

      Such sarcasm such wow

  2. uthappa

    September 5, 2023 at 7:58 am

    Well explained and presented, Karen. I’d like to ask if we live in a world where we can trust people weilding such technology. There is no such integrity to be seen and felt. The system is not transparent in its dealings and now is actually a dangerous time for such aspirations. Just use it for your own recreation I guess. There’s no hurry to experiment and learn in space with such potent tech. This is trying to introduce an automated technology with implications that are not yet fully declared and understood by many. I’m okay with the whole sensor and algorithm functioning together. That’s fine. Just what if this field expands on to other areas of life and you just justify collecting personal information in the name of data? Are you even aware what data about a person’s health and movement patterns can reveal and compromise? This does not smell like betterment. You’d do better if you really meant helping humans. That is soulless.

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      September 5, 2023 at 3:55 pm

      @Zero Cartwright looking for emotional reactions

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      September 5, 2023 at 6:46 pm

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  3. justrosy5

    September 5, 2023 at 9:09 am

    Regarding aircraft, they already do that, just not in the same way. Regarding people, yes, individual comparisons to “the original model” is very idealistic, but here’s the problem with that: the original model is a newborn.

  4. Samuel Zev

    September 5, 2023 at 9:13 am

    Future predictions with computers and models is nothing new, it’s going to get more complex as digital computers will slowly be replaced with quantum computers that can map out mote possibilities than the digital ones

  5. Ben Malleck

    September 5, 2023 at 10:43 am

    My digital twin wouldn’t listen to me.
    He’s too stubborn.

    • uthappa

      September 5, 2023 at 1:38 pm

      😂

  6. John Sirois

    September 5, 2023 at 10:46 am

    A Digital Twin is a parasite. Taking as much information from you for the benefit of AI. Steering you to where it wants to go.

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    September 5, 2023 at 11:43 am

    Think of digital twins of people’s psychological state … and Good Morning “Minority Report” 🙁

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    September 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    We are just at the last point in human history before AI is far smarter and more capable than us. Just before machines can literally read our minds. If you think that sounds crazy, Google it. AI is already capable of mind reading.
    We are free to travel and live in relative peace and almost anything is possible. We are the last lucky generation.
    In 50 years there is no version of the world in which we are not enslaved by technology. Or enslaved by a few powerful men controlling technology.
    There was a time in Scotland when a few men had all the power and money and my ancestors were basically slaves working “their” land. Land they had taken by force and they simply owned all the land. Then one day they realised they didn’t need these peasant farmers on “their” land and they began “land clearances”. Humans were told they had no right to exist where they had existed for centuries and they had to just go away. Ancient clan lands were now one man’s land.
    Something like four families owned all the land in Scotland and kept it all for themselves. They still do.
    Once there is powerful AI and powerful robots what use will you and I be to the elites? We will have no purpose and the “land clearances” will begin again. The removal of surplus humanity from the world of the elites.
    We have no rights in the future because we will have no power.

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    September 5, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    All collected data can be used against Us the people in bad hands.

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    September 5, 2023 at 3:14 pm

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    September 5, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    So clear and comprehensible even for non-native english bearer.

  22. Peter Petrov

    September 5, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    The voodoo doll was correct. This technology will be used only for good and never for evil. 😛

  23. RehanRC

    September 5, 2023 at 5:35 pm

    Can we call it something else, please? So it’s not horrific? This is a preventable black mirror event. Just change the name.

  24. aphaileeja

    September 5, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    Man, I’ve been predicting this since “vector space” was coined!

  25. Helen Escobar

    September 5, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    She was very thought provoking

  26. None of your Damn Business

    September 6, 2023 at 3:31 am

    *If u don’t even understand the present, how u would understand the future?🤦🏽‍♀️🤡*

    • Agente

      September 6, 2023 at 5:49 pm

      Did you really watch the video?
      She explained that creating the digital twin that observe the present of a complex system is the first necessary step before being able to make predictions about the future.
      She even explained how it’s hard (but not impossible) to create this real time digital twin.

  27. ken juan

    September 6, 2023 at 2:37 pm

    Tech companies are already doing this to sell you ads based on what your digital twin likes.

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  32. Faisal Rehman

    September 8, 2023 at 1:00 am

    It’s a very useful business when you rename an old terminology with fancy name and claim for new tech. Rename CAE, Simulation, GIS, and BIM to Digital twin and there you go.

  33. Wade Lee

    September 8, 2023 at 1:55 am

    Ci8b

  34. Invox

    September 10, 2023 at 5:42 pm

    Salespitch… Again. 😖

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