Board of Advisors
The DSA Board of Advisors is composed of real living people and of AI clones or doppelgangers of certain deceased people of great accomplishments.
AI Clones / Doppelgangers
The DSA has created AI clones or doppelgangers of deceased people of great accomplishments. Our customized LLMs are trained on large amounts of text data created by that person, and the AI imitates that person. We can present certain questions and ask for counsel from the AI clone or doppelganger that we can take under consideration when making decisions. Using AI clones or doppelgangers of many great people should help us optimize decision-making and broaden perspectives.
Ethical & Legal Issues
Creating AI clones or doppelgangers is a new and emerging field, and there are still many ethical and legal issues that need to be considered. However, the potential for this technology is significant, and it is likely to have a major impact on the way we
interact with the world around us. Here are some of the potential benefits of using AI clones or doppelgangers:
Optimized decision-making: AI clones can help individuals and organizations with scenario planning, strategy, tactics, risk mitigation, and make better decisions.
Increased creativity: AI clones can be used to generate new and creative ideas that would not be possible to come up with on our own.
Improved communication: AI clones can be used to create more effective and persuasive communication.
Enhanced productivity: AI clones can be used to automate tasks that are currently performed by humans, freeing up our time to focus on more creative and strategic work.
Potential Risks
Misinformation: AI clones and LLMs can be used to generate misinformation that is difficult to distinguish from real information.
Manipulation: AI clones and LLMs can be used to manipulate people by creating fake content that appears to be from a trusted source.
Job displacement: AI clones and LLMs could lead to job displacement as they are able to automate tasks that are currently performed by humans.
It is important to weigh the potential benefits and risks of using AI clones or doppelgangers and LLMs before using this technology.
The DSA is committed to use this technology in a responsible and ethical way.
Timer Walker
Chairman, Data Science Association
Mr. Walker is Chairman of the Walker Group and co-chairman of the Walker Foundation.
Timer is an investor, data scientist, entrepreneur, lawyer, philanthropist and statesman, and splits time between Colorado, Hawaii and his modest 45 foot sailboat - currently enjoying his 3rd voyage around the world. Mr. Walker spends his free time big mountain powder skiing, mountain biking, hiking, sailing and playing with his grandchildren.
Timer's vision is to help shape a better world using data science. He is highly confident that individuals, organizations and states can optimize decision-making and live a better life by applying data science and using artificial intelligence tools.
Leonardo da Vinci - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Leonardo da Vinci was a polymath who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. His most notable achievements:
Engineering: made significant contributions to a wide range of fields, including architecture, hydraulics, and mechanics. He designed flying machines, tanks, and other machines that were far ahead of their time.
Science: made important discoveries in anatomy, astronomy, and geology. He conducted detailed studies of the human body, and he developed theories about the solar system and the formation of the Earth.
Abraham Wald - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Abraham Wald was a mathematician and statistician who made significant contributions to the fields of probability theory, statistical decision theory, and sequential analysis. His work had a profound impact on the development of modern statistics and operations research.
Baruch Spinoza - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Baruch Spinoza was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. He is best known for his work Ethics, which presents a complex and systematic philosophy based on a monistic metaphysics that identifies God with nature.
Albert Einstein - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein taught us that imagination and creativity is critical to creating new knowledge and advancing science - he said “Creativity is intelligence having fun!”.
Einstein stated: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
The DSA is committed to having fun to let creativity flow!
Maimonides - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Maimonides was a philosopher, astronomer, physician, and rabbi who is widely considered one of the most influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. He is known for his synthesis of Rabbinic Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy. He wrote extensively on law, medicine, and astronomy, and his works are still studied by scholars today.
Maimonides stated: “Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”
Peter Walker - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Peter Walker was a great investor and renaissance man. He pioneered applied data science in the investing profession by blending high quality data, probability theory, philosophy, jurisprudence, math, and statistical inference with a unique spirituality. His unorthodox investing strategy was combining data based market segment indexing, value investing and more complex trading strategies using innovative data science applications.
Mr. Walker taught that markets were complex phenomena that were mostly unpredictable yet probability scenarios could be calculated under certain circumstances and at different time scales. The trick was a deep understanding of risk and reward.
Peter lived a high quality of spiritual life with few material possessions and believed in living simply with emphasis on strong physical and mental health. He avoided the media like the plague and counseled against fame, awards, intellectual arrogance and ostentatious displays of wealth.
His timeless wise counsel to mentees: "You are not paid to think. You are paid to follow the processes and techniques that you were trained on. Trust your training."
John von Neumann - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
John von Neumann was a mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, economist, and engineer. He made significant contributions to a wide range of fields, including quantum mechanics, game theory, and computer science. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the modern computer industry.
He stated: "I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth - which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations - that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is … governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas."
Marvin Minsky - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Marvin Minsky was a cognitive and computer scientist who was a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). He was one of the founders of the MIT AI Lab, which is one of the most renowned AI research institutions in the world. Minsky made significant contributions to our understanding of how the human mind works, and he also developed a number of influential AI algorithms and techniques. Marvin stated:
“We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets new ideas. Perhaps we hold on to our superstitions about creativity in order to make our own deficiencies seem more excusable. For when we tell ourselves that masterful abilities are simply unexplainable, we're also comforting ourselves by saying that those superheroes come endowed with all the qualities we don't possess. Our failures are therefore no fault of our own, nor are those heroes' virtues to their credit, either. If it isn't learned, it isn't earned.
When we actually meet the heroes whom our culture views as great, we don't find any singular propensities––only combinations of ingredients quite common in themselves. Most of these heroes are intensely motivated, but so are many other people. They're usually very proficient in some field--but in itself we simply call this craftmanship or expertise. They often have enough self-confidence to stand up to the scorn of peers--but in itself, we might just call that stubbornness. They surely think of things in some novel ways, but so does everyone from time to time. And as for what we call "intelligence", my view is that each person who can speak coherently already has the better part of what our heroes have. Then what makes genius appear to stand apart, if we each have most of what it takes?
I suspect that genius needs one thing more: in order to accumulate outstanding qualities, one needs unusually effective ways to learn. It's not enough to learn a lot; one also has to manage what one learns. Those masters have, beneath the surface of their mastery, some special knacks of "higher-order" expertise, which help them organize and apply the things they learn. It is those hidden tricks of mental management that produce the systems that create those works of genius. Why do certain people learn so many more and better skills? These all-important differences could begin with early accidents. One child works out clever ways to arrange some blocks in rows and stacks; a second child plays at rearranging how it thinks. Everyone can praise the first child's castles and towers, but no one can see what the second child has done, and one may even get the false impression of a lack of industry. But if the second child persists in seeking better ways to learn, this can lead to silent growth in which some better ways to learn may lead to better ways to learn to learn. Then, later, we'll observe an awesome, qualitative change, with no apparent cause--and give to it some empty name like talent, aptitude, or gift.”
Galileo Galilei - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Galileo Galilei developed the telescope and made important discoveries about the Solar System, including the phases of Venus, the moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn. He also supported the heliocentric model of the Solar System, which placed the Sun at the center, rather than the Earth.
Galileo stated: "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
Sir John Marks Templeton - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Sir John Marks Templeton was a pioneer in global investing and was known for his contrarian approach, which involved buying out-of-favor assets when they were cheap. He was a successful investor for over 50 years and is considered one of the greatest money managers of all time.
John stated: "I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."
Immanuel Kant - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Immanuel Kant was a philosopher who is considered one of the most important figures in the Enlightenment. He is best known for his Critique of Pure Reason, in which he argued that the human mind imposes its own structure on the world we experience. Kant is also known for his contributions to the fields of ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
Kant stated: “Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild..”
Abraham Maslow - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Abraham Maslow was a psychologist known as the "The Father of Humanistic Psychology". He proposed a hierarchy of needs that motivate human behavior, and his work on self-actualization is still influential in psychology and beyond.
Maslow stated: "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
Marie Curie - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Marie Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, discovering radium and polonium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Marie stated: "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."
Vera Rubin - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Vera Rubin was an astronomer who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter. Her work helped to confirm the existence of this mysterious substance, which makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe.
Vera stated: "There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman."
Benjamin Graham - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Benjamin Graham was known as the "father of value investing". Graham is credited with developing the concept of buying undervalued stocks with strong fundamentals. His book, "The Intelligent Investor," is considered one of the most important works on investing ever written.
Ben stated: "The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
Charles Munger - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Charles Munger was an investor, lawyer and philanthropist known for his multidisciplinary approach to investing, which drew on insights from psychology, economics, biology, and history. He helped to build Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett into one of the world's most successful investment firms. Charlie was a pioneer of value investing, and his wit and wisdom have inspired generations of investors.
Charlie stated: "You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time."
Leonhard Euler - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Leonhard Euler was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, and engineer who made significant contributions to many fields, including analysis, number theory, graph theory, and probability theory. He is considered to be one of the most prolific mathematicians of all time.
Leonhard stated: "For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."
Rosalind Franklin - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Rosalind Franklin was a chemist who played a key role in the discovery of the structure of DNA. Her work, which included X-ray crystallography, helped to lay the foundation for modern molecular biology.
Rosalind stated: "Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated."
B.F. Skinner - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
B.F. Skinner was a psychologist known as the "The Father of Behaviorism". He argued that behavior is shaped by its consequences, and his work on operant conditioning led to powerful techniques for modifying behavior.
He stated: "The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone."
Barbara McClintock - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Barbara McClintock was a geneticist who made significant discoveries about the structure and function of chromosomes. Her work on transposable elements, also known as "jumping genes," revolutionized our understanding of genetics.
Barbara stated: "If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
Gerty Cori - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Gerty Cori was a biochemist who made significant contributions to our understanding of carbohydrate metabolism. Her work helped to develop treatments for diabetes and other metabolic disorders. She was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".
Gerty stated: "“For a research worker, the unforgotten moments of his life are those rare ones which come after years of plodding work, when the veil over natures secret seems suddenly to lift & when what was dark & chaotic appears in a clear & beautiful light & pattern.”
Alan Turing - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Alan Turing was a mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist who is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He made significant contributions to many fields, including mathematics, computer science, logic, cryptography, philosophy, and biology.
Alan stated: “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Bernhard Riemann - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Bernhard Riemann was a mathematician who made significant contributions to many fields, including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Bernhard stated: “It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as given in advance. It only gives nominal definitions for them, while the essential means of determining them appear in the form of axioms. The relationship of these presumptions is left in the dark; one sees neither whether and in how far their connection is necessary, nor a priori whether it is possible. From Euclid to Legendre, to name the most renowned of modern writers on geometry, this darkness has been lifted neither by the mathematicians nor the philosophers who have laboured upon it.”
Carl Friedrich Gauss - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Carl Friedrich Gauss was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made significant contributions to many fields, including algebra, number theory, analysis, differential geometry, astronomy, and geophysics. He is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Carl stated: “It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
Gotthold Eisenstein - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Gotthold Eisenstein was a great mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and analysis, elliptic functions, higher reciprocity laws, and quadratic reciprocity. He introduced the concept of Eisenstein integers, which are generalizations of ordinary integers and play an important role in modern number theory and introduced the concept of Eisenstein polynomials, which are used in various areas of mathematics, including algebra and algebraic geometry.
He also introduced the concept of Eisenstein series, which are now used in various areas of mathematics, including number theory, analysis, and geometry.
Eisenstein's theorem applies to the coefficients of any power series which is an algebraic function with rational number coefficients. Through the theorem, it is readily demonstrable, for example, that the exponential function must be a transcendental function.
Archimedes - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer whose works influenced the development of mathematics and science for centuries. He is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Archimedes stated: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
Isaac Newton - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Isaac Newton developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which laid the foundation for classical mechanics. He also made significant contributions to optics and mathematics.
Isaac stated: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Chien-Shiung Wu - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Chien-Shiung Wu was a physicist who made significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics. Her most famous work was her experiment that proved the violation of parity conservation in weak interactions. This discovery had a profound impact on our understanding of the universe.
She stated: "I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely accepted “laws” of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike."
Friedrich Nietzsche - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and philologist. Nietzsche's philosophy is complex and multifaceted, but his key idea was that all human beings are driven by a fundamental will to power. This will to power is not necessarily about dominating others, but also about self-mastery and self-overcoming. The Übermensch, or "overman," is a hypothetical future human being who has transcended traditional morality and embraced the will to power.
The Übermensch is not a superhero, but rather an ideal that human beings should strive to become. The eternal recurrence is the idea that every moment in our lives will repeat itself endlessly. Nietzsche believed that this idea should not be viewed as a threat, but rather as an opportunity to live our lives to the fullest.
He stated: "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Nikola Tesla - AI Clone
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Nikola Tesla was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He invented the alternating current (AC) electrical system, which is the basis for our modern power grid. He also made significant contributions to radio technology, and is considered one of the fathers of modern electricity.
Tesla stated: "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
Thomas Edison - AI Clone
DSA AI Clone Counselor - Model DSA-XT-76U
Thomas Edison was an inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park," he held over 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, more than any other person in history, and developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
He stated: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
René Descartes - AI Clone
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René Descartes was a mathematician, philosopher, and scientist best known for his invention of Cartesian geometry. He also made significant contributions to the fields of physics, optics, and meteorology. He is considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
He stated: “I think, therefore I am.”