{"id":79610,"date":"2018-06-14T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-debuts-personal-ai-consumer-app"},"modified":"2018-06-14T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T17:03:45","slug":"artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-debuts-personal-ai-consumer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-debuts-personal-ai-consumer-app","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Startup Oben Debuts \u201cPersonal\u201d AI Consumer App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-debuts-personal-ai-consumer-app.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pasadena-based artificial intelligence tech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/behind-screen\/artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-raises-10-million-1073508\" target=\"_blank\">Oben<\/a> is about to roll out its first product, PAI (Personal AI), a consumer app designed to let users create an AI-driven avatar with their own look and voice.<\/p>\n<p>Its underlying AI technology is already getting some select professional use. Overall, Oben\u2019s team believes AI can have a wide range of uses including in virtual and augmented reality, gaming, content creation and retail.<\/p>\n<p>With PAI, users essentially \u201cteach\u201d the app about themselves. \u201cYou take a selfie, and a visual avatar is ready in the app,\u201d Oben CEO and co-founder Nikhil Jain explained, adding that users can then customize their look. Plus, simply by speaking a few sentences, users can teach their avatar to talk or sing. These features can be used on social media and the like.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/behind-screen\/artificial-intelligence-startup-oben-debuts-personal-ai-consumer-app-1120026\">https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/behind-screen\/artificial-i...pp-1120026<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena-based artificial intelligence tech startup Oben is about to roll out its first product, PAI (Personal AI), a consumer app designed to let users create an AI-driven avatar with their own look and voice. Its underlying AI technology is already getting some select professional use. Overall, Oben\u2019s team believes AI can have a wide range [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79610","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}