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Yo, technology. What is it all about?

I could make Danny Bot, but I could also make Danny 2.0, which is just, you know, I've been a journalist for 20 years.

I have hundreds of hours of podcasts.

I could feed all of this in and just create a new me, so to speak.

Yeah, it's like a new medium of you, essentially.

It's a new way to interact with you.

It's a new way for you to communicate with people and to experiment with, you know,

how like you that Danny is or how augmented or different.

Okay. Danny is or how augmented or different. Like, you know. Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley,

your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

I'm your host, Danny Fortson, and this week we are talking about virtual humans.

Specifically, AI avatars that are based on real people.

Now, there are a fair number of companies, startups working on this, and broadly it all works the same way, which is, you know, you sign up.

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