Gareth O'Callaghan: Success with AI may come with a sting in the tail

Cloning himself in an AI experiment left our columnist feeling uncomfortable: 'There was something inexplicably dark about what was going on'

An avatar from the TV series ‘Westworld’ — based on a novel by Michael Crichton — in which wealthy visitors to a fantasy theme park get o act out their wildest dreams on the AI residents.

Some months ago, I took part in an experiment that in hindsight left me feeling deeply uncomfortable. 

I was asked would I like to make a clone of myself — as in create an identical three-dimensional version using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning.