Never be lonely again: Digital humans
I spend a fair amount of time in my book chapter talking about intelligent (AI) bots / artificial humans and how brands can use them to create more meaningful relationships with customers. Fascinating stuff. And as AI and natural language processing improves (eg, real conversation) continues to improve in parallel with improving graphics and streaming, …
Reading my mind
Fascinating stuff. And, whoa. The inevitable march towards brain-computer interface continues! \”Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person\’s brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. \” We are rapidly moving from keyboard and mouse input – which, …
VR for training brain-computer interface
https://www.facebook.com/samanthaparrington/posts/10156772105783107
Slightly uncanny valley
Wow. So. Uncanny valley…one {really bad} selfie and the Pinscreen app maps my face to a 3d avatar from their library (nb: all the female avatars are ridiculously uber sexed up – no, that\’s not my body). It follows what my face is doing as well – with \”AR\” mode my face was mapped to my boyfriend\’s …
3d printing limbs
I think this is one of my favorite applications for 3d printing. Such excitement on their faces! Looking forward to the day when fanciful, colorful body enhancements don\’t even get a second glance.
The oldest profession
I\’m toying with including this on my blog post on automation