Take an early peek at the Neon AI Samsung is unveiling at CES 2020
Hello, artificial human
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The biggest tech show of the year is almost upon us asCES 2020is about to get underway in Las Vegas. One of the sights on show will be a newSamsungAI innovation called Neon, and now we’ve got some idea of what it looks like.
We’ve already seenseveral teasersfor the project, with terms like “artificial human” getting dropped by the official Neon Twitter account. Now we’ve got some visualizations too.
Neon project lead Pranav Mistry hastweeted outsome graphics showing Neon in action – and it appears we’re looking at a digital avatar with a rather plain taste in clothing.
As for what this virtual creation is going to be able to do, Mistry says it’s able to autonomously create new expressions, new movements, and new dialogue, so this looks like it’s several steps upfrom Bixby.
Flying to CES tomorrow, and the code is finally working :) Ready to demo CORE R3. It can now autonomously create new expressions, new movements, new dialog (even in Hindi), completely different from the original captured data. pic.twitter.com/EPAJJrLyjdJanuary 5, 2020
Neon, a product of Star (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research) Labs, is associated withseveral patentsmentioning virtual characters that are able to go beyond what their original programming tells them to do.
It would appear that these avatars are destined for use in hotels, entertainment venues, kiosks and so on, able to reply to your questions even if the system has never come across them before.
Other than that, we’re not sure exactly what to expect from Neon – though we will of course bring you all the announcements from CES 2020 (includingother Samsung news) as and when they appear.
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We might not be quite at the Westworld stage just yet, but as artificial intelligencecontinues to develop, get ready for some pretty cool concepts and demos to appear throughout 2020.
ViaThe Verge
Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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