Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says his newly developed “Digital Ray” is an AI clone trained on decades of his writing, interviews and decision-making systems.
In a new post on X, the Bridgewater Associates founder says he’s entering what he calls “the most exciting phase” of his life’s work: merging human intelligence with artificial intelligence to create decision-making partners that think and reason as he does.
“Together they have the power to make extraordinarily effective decisions that neither the individuals without the AIs nor the AIs without the people can make on their own.”
He describes “Digital Ray” as a version of himself trained to make decisions consistent with his own principles, preferences and values. He notes that it is a system built to think like him, not just talk like him.
Dalio adds that the project is the culmination of 40 years of work at Bridgewater, where he built rule-based systems to test and automate decision-making in markets. He highlights that AI clones now play a crucial role at Bridgewater.
“Those decision-making clones became Bridgewater’s main investment decision makers and the foundation of its success. They still are.
Then I started using it with people management at Bridgewater, and it eventually spread to almost all my decision-making.”
He explains that “Digital Ray” builds on that foundation, combining his old computer-based frameworks with the generative capabilities of modern large language models. The result, he says, is an interactive system that can converse, advise and reason at over 90% of his own ability in life and work contexts.
“According to those who have tested it, it’s about 95 percent as good as speaking with the real me about life and work because it has been well-trained on my life and work principles.”
Dalio argues that building such fidelity requires painstaking curation rather than generic AI training.
“The main reason my AI clone can now have in-depth conversations with you that are almost indistinguishable from the conversation you would have with me personally is because of the enormous amount of training that has gone into it. It’s all about the training.”
Dalio first unveiled Digital Ray last month and opened a dedicated site for beta applicants.
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