{"id":145659,"date":"2022-09-05T15:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-digital-human-could-be-your-next-favorite-celebrity-or-financial-advisor"},"modified":"2022-09-05T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:23:45","slug":"a-digital-human-could-be-your-next-favorite-celebrity-or-financial-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/a-digital-human-could-be-your-next-favorite-celebrity-or-financial-advisor","title":{"rendered":"A digital human could be your next favorite celebrity\u2014or financial advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When one of China\u2019s biggest celebrities, Simon Gong <\/a>\u2014also known as Gong Jun\u2014released a new music video in June 2022, it quickly attracted 15 million views on the country\u2019s Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo. But the event also stood out for a different reason\u2014one that only eagle-eyed fans might have noticed. The singer in the video was not Gong himself, but a digital replica created by Baidu, a \u201cdigital human\u201d powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Likewise, the lyrics and melody were generated by AI, marking the recording as China\u2019s first AI-generated content music video.<\/p>\n

Deloitte<\/a> defines digital humans as AI-powered virtual beings that can produce a whole range of human body language. In recent years, businesses focused on providing round-the-clock services, as well as the media and entertainment industry, are increasingly adopting this nascent technology, aiming to capture a growing market. And as digital humans increasingly populate other sectors like retail, health care, and finance, Emergen Research<\/a> forecasts that the global market for digital humans will jump to about $530 billion in 2030, from $10 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When one of China\u2019s biggest celebrities, Simon Gong \u2014also known as Gong Jun\u2014released a new music video in June 2022, it quickly attracted 15 million views on the country\u2019s Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo. But the event also stood out for a different reason\u2014one that only eagle-eyed fans might have noticed. The singer in the video [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,45,1495,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-finance","category-health","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145659","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}