{"id":83585,"date":"2018-10-15T01:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T08:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/magic-leaps-new-ai-assistant-looks-alarmingly-human"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:45:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:45:54","slug":"magic-leaps-new-ai-assistant-looks-alarmingly-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/magic-leaps-new-ai-assistant-looks-alarmingly-human","title":{"rendered":"Magic Leap\u2019s new AI assistant looks alarmingly human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magic-leaps-new-ai-assistant-looks-alarmingly-human2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tech world\u2019s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2018\/10\/10\/apple-1-trillion-market-value-orig.cnn-business\">Apple<\/a> has Siri, and Amazon has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/28\/tech\/amazon-echo-event\/index.html\">Alexa<\/a>. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mica isn\u2019t just a voice assistant. She\u2019s something you can actually see if you wear the company\u2019s augmented-reality glasses, called <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/08\/technology\/magic-leap-one-creator\/index.html\">Magic Leap One<\/a>. Mica looks and acts like a human \u2014 she makes eye contact and offers a warm smile, along with other human-like expressions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2018\/10\/12\/tech\/magic-leap-ai-assistant\/index.html?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2018\/10\/12\/tech\/magic-leap-ai-assist...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech world\u2019s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human. Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday. Mica isn\u2019t just a voice assistant. She\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83585","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\/83585","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83585\/revisions\/83732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}