{"id":112956,"date":"2020-09-13T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/ai-avatars-from-clippy-to-rommie-and-beyond"},"modified":"2020-09-13T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T14:33:09","slug":"ai-avatars-from-clippy-to-rommie-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/ai-avatars-from-clippy-to-rommie-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"AI Avatars \u2014 from Clippy to Rommie and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-avatars-from-clippy-to-rommie-and-beyond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"\">Avatar derives from a Sanskrit word meaning \u201cdescent,\u201d and when it first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth \u2014 typically, the incarnation in earthly form of Vishnu or another Hindu deity. It later came to refer to any incarnation in human form, and then to any embodiment (such as that of a concept or philosophy), whether or not in the form of a person. In the age of technology, avatar has developed another sense \u2014 it can now be used for the image that a person chooses as his or her \u201cembodiment\u201d in an electronic medium.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Avatar derives from a Sanskrit word meaning \u201cdescent,\u201d and when it first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth \u2014 typically, the incarnation in earthly form of Vishnu or another Hindu deity. It later came to refer to any [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112956","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\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112959,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112956\/revisions\/112959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}