A Silicon Valley-based company called Uare.ai this week announced that it raised $10.3 million in initial funding, led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures, with other investors joining in. The company’s new platform, which it hopes to launch by next month, is a new kind of artificial intelligence — “Individual AI” — that enables people to create AI-based digital versions of themselves.
The company wants you to share your memories, stories, expertise, and voice. After you do that, your digital “counterpart” will be able to talk like you, make decisions like you, and, according to a provably false claim by the company, “think” like you. (AI can’t “think.” AI systems operate by processing data and patterns without understanding, self-awareness, or the adaptive reasoning capacities that define human thought.)
The idea, according to company claims, is that its platform provides private models that “evolve” along with you and give you a “second brain” for, among other things, “connecting with others.” These connections come in the form of content creation, voice conversations and chat.
