The ability to create virtual clones that appear to think and talk like the real thing is very much real, as it has been done for Elon Musk and Barack Obama. We discuss techniques and potential with the people behind them.

Do pixies have addresses, and if they do, should you match them?

You’re probably thinking this is a weird question to ask, and it probably is, even more so taken out of context. It refers to the antithesis between the up-in-the-sky expectations and theories associated with artificial intelligence (AI) and the often mundane work required to make it work in the real world.

Either way, that sounds like the kind of question that could get you down a rabbit hole. So, when I tweeted that a while ago as a reference to a then published story on AI in the real world, I was not all that surprised to get a reply from Deep Elon Musk.

Deep Elon Musk is an AI twitter bot. At its core, it’s an algorithm that learns how to write. It has been crafted using an LSTM Recurrent Deep Neural Network, and it’s trained by having it read a lot of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s speeches over and over. You could say it has taken a life of its own.

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