{"id":129673,"date":"2021-10-29T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-startup-is-creating-digital-human-servants-to-work-in-the-metaverse"},"modified":"2021-10-29T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:25:05","slug":"a-startup-is-creating-digital-human-servants-to-work-in-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-startup-is-creating-digital-human-servants-to-work-in-the-metaverse","title":{"rendered":"A Startup Is Creating Digital Human Servants to Work in the Metaverse"},"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\/rjclQ3m5JRw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the metaverse might seem like a far off dream, more fit for the pages of a Neal Stephenson novel than reality, some are already attempting to cash in the concept \u2014 and even provide a digital workforce for it.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Soul Machines 0 a New Zealand-based company that says it\u2019s designing AI-driven digital humans for clients to use for things like customer service, promotional videos, and education. However, the company also has its sights set on the future \u2014 with co-founder Greg Cross saying it plans to create a \u201cdigital workforce\u201d for a potential metaverse, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/10\/27\/22746679\/soul-machines-metaverse-digital-humans-labor\" class=\"\"> according to <i>The Verge<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re playing a game, we adopt a certain persona or personality, when we\u2019re coaching our kids\u2019 football team we adopt another persona, we have a different personality when we\u2019re at the pub having a beer with our mates,\u201d Cross told the Verge. \u201cAs human beings, we\u2019re always adjusting our persona and the role we have within those parameters. With digital people, we can create those constructs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the metaverse might seem like a far off dream, more fit for the pages of a Neal Stephenson novel than reality, some are already attempting to cash in the concept \u2014 and even provide a digital workforce for it. Enter Soul Machines 0 a New Zealand-based company that says it\u2019s designing AI-driven digital humans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129673","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}