Within the next 1-3 years, many people will have an interaction with an AI avatar that feels authentically human.
If you go look at digi.ai’s website for their plans, they basically want to tick all the boxes on this, in a usecase where it matters and will make money, and already put out a render of what they want tio to look like. So I’d guess closer to 1 than 3 years.
Looks like they are focusing on animated avatars. I expect the realtime photorealistic video to be the main bottleneck, so I agree that removing that requirement will probably speed things up.
Yes, they’re going with a cute Pixar-like style (I gather they hired an ex-Pixar animator). Anime would likely also work for something like this. Both of those might reduce the psychological impact a little by adding an air of unreality, though I suspect a sufficiently interactive conversation would still have a good deal of impact.
If you go look at digi.ai’s website for their plans, they basically want to tick all the boxes on this, in a usecase where it matters and will make money, and already put out a render of what they want tio to look like. So I’d guess closer to 1 than 3 years.
Looks like they are focusing on animated avatars. I expect the realtime photorealistic video to be the main bottleneck, so I agree that removing that requirement will probably speed things up.
Yes, they’re going with a cute Pixar-like style (I gather they hired an ex-Pixar animator). Anime would likely also work for something like this. Both of those might reduce the psychological impact a little by adding an air of unreality, though I suspect a sufficiently interactive conversation would still have a good deal of impact.