- Silly as it may seem, the race to build lifelike digital avatars has become serious business. Earlier this month, Soul Machines raised $40 million in a Series B round after being featured in a YouTube Originals documentary
- At stake is the ability to replace (or at least replicate) the work of actual people on a grand scale.
- Danny Tomsett, the CEO of Uneeq, sees digital humans as a kind of middle ground between chatbots and live support, offering the scale of the former with the empathy and body language of the latter.
- WE CAN’T SCALE HUMANS IN A WAY THAT ADDRESSES ALL THOSE NEEDS IN SOCIETY.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90456164/silicon-valleys-hot-new-commodity-creepy-ai-powered-avatars
Uneeq Digital Humans
Danny Tomsett
CEO of Uneeq