Liesl Capper, BA (Psychology), Grad Cert venture Development, GAICD

The MIT Technology Review article Your Virtual Clone: Chatterbots from MyCyberTwin can respond to questions about you when you’re not online said

Now there’s a Web-based service that, in essence, lets you set up your own Eliza and train it to mimic your own personality. No one will be fooled into thinking it’s you, but MyCyberTwin, launched earlier this month, does a decent job of acting as your stand-in or virtual public-relations agent when you’re not reachable. If you embed your cybertwin in your blog, website, or MySpace profile, visitors can learn about you through an open-ended conversation. You can program your cybertwin with as much factual information and as much of your personality as you like. If you think visitors to your blog might ask “What are you doing Saturday night?”, you can train it to respond “Going to see Harry Potter with friends. Why don’t you join us?”
 
“We wanted to build software clones of humans that learn about you and effectively function on your behalf,” says Liesl Capper, cofounder and CEO of RelevanceNow. “The problem with creating a chat AI is that it’s very laborious, trying to think of variations on what people will say and then creating responses. Building one has always been a labor of love that takes months, if not years. What we have built is the ability for people to make a cybertwin really quickly.”

Liesl Capper, BA (Psychology), Grad Cert venture Development, GAICD is CEO of MyCyberTwin.com which allows you to create virtual personalities that can chat for you online.
 
Liesl was founder and CEO of Mooter, now listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Key architect & inventor of this technology, she managed strategy, global expansion and deals with Yahoo! Search Services and others. She raised close to 5M in seed and early expansion capital, much of that during the tech wreck.
 
She was CEO & Founder of Toptots Early Learning centres which grew to 38 branches in 4 countries during her reign. This multinational education franchise was founded when she was only 25.
 
Liesl earned her BA in Psychology in 1995 at the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika. She earned her Graduate Certificate in Venture Development, Business, in 2004 from Griffith University, Australia, and her GAICD, Corporate Governance, Financial Management, Trade Law in 2004 from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She won the Women in Technology outstanding achievement award on September 15, 2007 at Brisbane, Australia.
 
Talk to Liesl’s CyberTwin. Read Mooter takes bold leap into cyberspace, Finders’ keepers, Stay connected with a cybertwin, and Artificial Intelligence to Promote Feature Film “Flatland”.