"Digital Ray" Revealed: Why AI Avatars are Much Stronger than LLMs?

Question

Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater, recently released his AI avatar “Digital Ray”. This decision is much more significant than you might imagine.

Avatar ≠ Large Model, the Difference is as Vast as Heaven and Earth

The biggest misconception in the AI field over the past two years is to confuse AI avatars, AI agents, and large language models. Dalio directly exposed this:

What is the core of AI avatars? It replicates a person's complete way of thinking, values, decision-making preferences, and even intuition. It can make decisions according to your wishes, and may even do it better than you.

What about LLM? It is a general brain that summarizes information from the entire network but lacks personalized judgment standards. Dalio poignantly said: “I see a lot of knowledge and processing ability in LLM, but philosophical wisdom, imagination, and out-of-the-box thinking? Not much.” Instead, there is a lot of misinformation and mediocre content.

Let's be realistic: would you dare to entrust the most important decisions of your life to ChatGPT? I bet you wouldn't.

How to train a clone into a divine weapon? One word: ruthless.

What has Dalio done in the past 40 years? He wrote down all decision-making principles, recorded all the questions and answers he has been asked, and input all of this into AI. This is not something that can be done in a day or two; it is a continuous accumulation over 40 years.

The current test results of Digital Ray:

Principles of Life and Work: 95% similarity (feels like chatting with the real Dalio)
Market/Investment/Economics/Geopolitics: 80% similarity (still in training)

Hundreds of independent testers have verified that this thing can indeed converse without hallucinations and with high quality.

What does this mean?

For Ordinary People: In the future, you can have unlimited conversations with the AI avatars of the big shots you admire, without any time constraints. Want to discuss investments with Buffett? Want to chat about cutting-edge research with a certain scientist? Just have an AI avatar.

On the Future: Dalio predicts that everyone will have “my AI,” which will filter information for you and personalize decisions, being a hundred times more reliable than the current general LLM.

But the shortcomings of AI are also clear: a lack of emotional intelligence, intuition, and creative insight. These are things that have accumulated over millions of years of human evolution, which AI still cannot grasp. Therefore, the strongest combination will always be: human + AI avatar.

The most realistic statement

Dalio said he looks forward to teaming up with those who use Digital Ray to take down competitors without AI assistance in the market. This is not bragging; it's the future of competition.