{"id":117369,"date":"2020-12-19T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/fable-studio-unveils-two-ai-based-virtual-beings-who-can-talk-to-you"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:22:17","slug":"fable-studio-unveils-two-ai-based-virtual-beings-who-can-talk-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/fable-studio-unveils-two-ai-based-virtual-beings-who-can-talk-to-you","title":{"rendered":"Fable Studio unveils two AI-based virtual beings who can talk to you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fable-studio-unveils-two-ai-based-virtual-beings-who-can-talk-to-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/11\/19\/fable-studio-teases-ai-virtual-character-lucy-on-zoom-and-other-platforms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fable Studio<\/a> has announced two new conversational AI virtual beings, or artificial people. Their names are Charlie and Beck, and they will be able to hold conversations as if they were real people.<\/p>\n<p>The new characters are a blend of storytelling and artificial intelligence, a marriage that Fable is pioneering in the belief that virtual beings will become a huge market as people seek companionship and entertainment during the tough climate of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Edward Saatchi believes that virtual beings are the start of something big. He organizes the Virtual Beings Summit, and this summer he noted that virtual beings companies \u2014 from Genies to AI Foundation \u2014 have <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2020\/07\/14\/virtual-beings-summit-artificial-people-startups-have-raised-more-than-300-million-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised more than $320 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fable Studio has announced two new conversational AI virtual beings, or artificial people. Their names are Charlie and Beck, and they will be able to hold conversations as if they were real people. The new characters are a blend of storytelling and artificial intelligence, a marriage that Fable is pioneering in the belief that virtual [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117369","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\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}