Neon Project Samsung CES Artificial Intelligence

   One of the foremost unique tech projects unveiled at CES 2020 this year is Neon, an "artificial human" designed by the Samsung Technology and Advanced Research Labs (STAR Labs). The company recently unveiled the project, with the question, “Have you met an artificial?" and thus the online quickly started guessing that it’s a replacement AI (AI) project.

Neon is essentially a humanoid AI (AI) avatar that appears sort of a human and may answer questions in almost real time while giving expressions like a smile or a raised eyebrow while doing so.

Pranav Mistry, CEO of Neon and head of STAR Labs, said that does not consider Neon to be an AI assistant because it does not have answers to every question. "They are virtual beings. They look like us, they behave like us. They are not AI assistants or bots".

"We always want to form technology more human," Mistry added. "The human aspect is at the core of Neon."

  This is technology that uses AI to duplicate human emotions, bodies and postures. A Japanese company called DataGrid has showcased such technology earlier. In fact, Swedish fashion brand, H&M, has used similar technology on its website before. The company, in 2011, used computers to make human bodies and stitched faces of real models on them.

  Artificial humans are often used for advertising and marketing campaigns and far more. What Samsung plans to use it for is yet to be seen though. The project is travel by the Samsung Technology and Advanced lab (STAR Labs), which has developed a number of the foremost leading edge technologies coming from the South Korean company. In fact, Indian scientist , Pranav Mistry, is at the helm of STAR Labs as President and CEO of the independent unit of Samsung. Mistry took over the position in October this year.

   The technology powering the avatars is named Core R "reality","realtime" and "responsive" and it allows Neons to react in but a couple of milliseconds when an issue is asked.

Mistry said he developed the project partially to answer the questions: "Can technology be more like human? Can machines learn more about us rather than us learning about machines and becoming like machines?"

  The artificial humans can have conversations and behave like humans, and that they will form memories and develop new skills. However, all is exclusive , with its own personality which will develop over time. 

  Neon also can help provide a bridge to cultural barriers, like language, since Neon speaks during a range of languages. An on-stage demo included questions in English, Korean, Chinese, and Hindu, and lots of other languages are possible.

  As companies like Google, Amazon and, yes, Samsung have discovered, the key to truly making smart devices useful is packing in AI , typically within the sort of voice assistants. Every tech heavyweight is investing in these assistants because they're heralded because the way forward for how we'll interact with our gadgets. The ultimate promise for the smart technology is to predict what you would like before you even ask or cause you to forget you are not interacting with a true human.

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