{"id":146191,"date":"2021-10-15T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=146191"},"modified":"2021-10-15T17:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T17:04:44","slug":"samsungs-neon-artificial-humans-are-confusing-everyone-we-set-the-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/?p=146191","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s Neon &#8216;artificial humans&#8217; are confusing everyone. We set the record straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>id=&#8221;article-body&#8221; class=&#8221;row&#8221; section=&#8221;article-body&#8221; data-component=&#8221;trackCWV&#8221;&gt;     <\/p>\n<p>Neon CEO Pranav Mistry introduces the company&#8217;s new AI to an audience at CES 2020.<\/p>\n<p> Sarah Tew\/CNET  A robot that\u00a0. Samsung&#8217;s\u00a0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Of all the digital pals shown off at  last week, none were quite as\u00a0, the humanlike &#8220;life form&#8221; funded by a Samsung lab (but don&#8217;t confuse it with a Samsung product). In a practical sense, consider it a chatbot with a human face and personality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if Siri or Alexa had a virtual face and could carry on a genuine conversation instead of only fetching you tomorrow&#8217;s forecast. Neon is headed in that direction, and it&#8217;s equal parts fascinating, impressive and eerie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Much of the technology behind this lifelike AI is still under development, with a beta release slated for  <a href=\"http:\/\/zofort.com\/__media__\/js\/netsoltrademark.php?d=tranhmaihuong.com%2Ftranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm%2F\">https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm\/<\/a> later this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Consider our curiosity piqued. Here&#8217;s a virtual being that looks nearly human. What&#8217;s it for, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/darienbanktrust.com\/__media__\/js\/netsoltrademark.php?d=tranhmaihuong.com%2Ftranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm%2F\">https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm\/<\/a> will people accept it or reject it for being &#8220;too&#8221; human?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Neon comes at a time when companies are ramping up investment in AI technologies,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ml\/url?q=https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm\/\">https:\/\/tranhmaihuong.com\/tranh-go-treo-tuong-tphcm\/<\/a> from camera processing to full-blown interfaces like this. For example, two years ago, Samsung vowed to  and 5G by the end of 2020. But this increased AI <a href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=spending\">spending<\/a> goes hand-in-hand with\u00a0\u00a0that skirts the edge of sentience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>              Now playing: Watch this:  Neon, the lifelike AI from Samsung, answers my questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>6:22     <\/p>\n<p>CNET got a chance to\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0. Both encounters led to more questions. Even still, the buzz around Neon is palpable. What does a Neon do, can it &#8220;feel&#8221;, and what happens next? Here&#8217;s everything we know about the Neon project, as well as a few lingering questions about these next-generation AIs.<\/p>\n<p>One Neon, two Neons, red Neon, blue Neon<\/p>\n<p>First things first, Neon is the name of the company, the project and an individual AI entity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can communicate with a Neon, with two Neons, and so forth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \tWhat&#8217;s a Neon?<\/p>\n<p>A Neon is an artificially intelligent digital avatar that&#8217;s meant to mimic real human appearance and emotions. It&#8217;s envisioned as a highly lifelike companion that has its own personality and can converse and behave like humans. Neons can also remember and learn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Neon CEO Pranav Mistry, &#8220;Neons are more like us, an independent but virtual living being, who can show emotions and learn from experiences.&#8221; According to the founder&#8217;s vision, they&#8217;re like a related &#8212; yet different &#8212; new species of life from humans.<\/p>\n<p>  See also        <\/p>\n<p>The first wave of Neons are modeled after real people, but Neon CEO Pranav Mistry says future Neons can be modeled to look like &#8212; but not identical to &#8212; actual humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>id=&#8221;article-body&#8221; class=&#8221;row&#8221; section=&#8221;article-body&#822\u2026","protected":false},"author":41215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146193,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146191\/revisions\/146193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}