{"id":102000,"date":"2020-02-06T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/samsungs-artificial-human-project-definitely-looks-like-a-digital-avatar"},"modified":"2020-02-06T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:11:44","slug":"samsungs-artificial-human-project-definitely-looks-like-a-digital-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/samsungs-artificial-human-project-definitely-looks-like-a-digital-avatar","title":{"rendered":"Samsung\u2019s \u2018artificial human\u2019 project definitely looks like a digital avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6f6EXX-79w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Friday we wrote about Samsung\u2019s mysterious \u201cartificial human\u201d project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2020\/1\/3\/21047923\/samsung-neon-artificial-human-ces-2020-rumor\">Neon<\/a>, speculating that the company was building realistic human avatars that could be used for entertainment and business purposes, acting as guides, receptionists, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a tweet from the project\u2019s lead and some leaked videos pretty much confirm this \u2014 although they don\u2019t give us nearly enough information to judge how impressive Neon is.<\/p>\n<p>The lead of Neon, computer-human interaction researcher Pranav Mistry, tweeted the image below, apparently showing one of the project\u2019s avatars. Mistry says the company\u2019s \u201cCore R3\u201d technology can now \u201cautonomously create new expressions, new movements, new dialog (even in Hindi), completely different from the original captured data.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday we wrote about Samsung\u2019s mysterious \u201cartificial human\u201d project Neon, speculating that the company was building realistic human avatars that could be used for entertainment and business purposes, acting as guides, receptionists, and more. Now, a tweet from the project\u2019s lead and some leaked videos pretty much confirm this \u2014 although they don\u2019t give [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}