Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice
In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world … Tweets: @sub8u , @gideonmann , @nafeezahmed , @mims , @bcmerchant , and @bcmerchant Tweets: Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : This is such a wild video - who/what/where you trust in the future is up for questioning. Avatars to help sell stuff today, avatars to mislead you tomorrow... A company that's betting its future on “Personal AI Avatars” https://gizmodo.com/... https://twitter.com/... Gideon Mann / @gideonmann : Transformative!!! but “they'd have to travel frequently for work, leaving too little time to spend with their children. .. what if my kids had my PAI?... they could interact with an avatar that looked like their father while he was away.” I had the exact inverse thought. https://twitter.com/... Dr Nafeez Ahmed / @nafeezahmed : this is so black mirror https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : This is wild. Scroll down to the video to see the “AI” copy of Brian do its best terrifying, animated skin puppet impersonation of him. https://twitter.com/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : A Pasadena-based startup is making waves in China by building lifelike ‘personal AI’ avatars for celebrities, and soon, for everyone. They offered to make the first non-celeb PAI for me, and I took them up on said offer. The results were... interesting https://gizmodo.com/... Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : Surprisingly, the only person not terrified by the video of my uncanny valleyed personal AI doppleganger was my wife, who thought it was pretty spot on. “The teeth are weird, but other than that...” https://twitter.com/...