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Can an AI-simulated customer successfully stand in for a real one? Across CBS, researchers uncover the potential, and the limits, of digital-twin technology.

What is a digital twin?
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Digital twins stumble on surveys but may pay off in the field: Here’s why

Why is there an effectiveness gap in digital twins and what will it take to make them work? Researchers from Columbia Business School built the public blueprint that lets anyone create digital twins, then ran the most rigorous test of them to date.

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AI-generated digital twins: shaping the future of business

During a Columbia AI Summit satellite workshop, faculty shared cutting-edge research on the opportunities and challenges of AI in business…

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How generative AI is transforming market research

Generative AI is revolutionizing market research by offering unprecedented ways to understand customers, assess competitors, and extend data-driven decision-…

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Any of us who uses ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude is creating a digital twin of ourselves.

Olivier ToubiaGlaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
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Digital twins in market research

If a replica of you is being built from your data, do you have a right to own it? Doppel Market is betting the answer is yes and is building a marketplace where consumers own their digital twin and get paid when it's used.

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Digital twins for surgery

There are three million joint replacements a year, and up to 40 percent of patients leave still in pain. Vent Creativity aims to close that gap by replicating the patient's anatomy and operating on it first.

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Research
  1. 01 Customer Digital Twins in the Field: Cross-Sell Micro-Personalization at Scale Working paper Read the research →
  2. 02 Digital Twins are Funhouse Mirrors: Five Systematic Distortions Journal article Read the research →
  3. 03 Synthetic Data and Digital Twins: The Hype, The Facts, the Promise Faculty research Read the research →
  4. 04 Twin-2K-500: A Data Set for Building Digital Twins of over 2,000 People Based on Their Answers to over 500 Questions Data set Read the research →
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The Digital Twins Lab explores digital twin technology and its real-world use cases with a commitment to transparency, independence, interdisciplinary collaboration, rigor, and accessibility.

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