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**It even appeared on the broadcast of â??This woman is a virtual human,â? and itâ??s terrifying.**
â??Itâ??s scary to be a virtual humanâ? â??The facial expressions are not at all alien and even friendlyâ? â??Itâ??s a fake synthetic human body, but how is this a â??virtual humanâ???â?.
A ‘virtual human’ who communicates in real time is also a hot topic by appearing on live news. There is a reaction that it is ‘surprising’ to the technology that delicately expresses various expressions and eye movements, but there is a strong counterargument to this. There is also an objection that the body and voice are not virtual because the human model is acting. Arguments are raging over the virtual human who is approaching.
On the 1st, ‘Jane’, a virtual human of Pulse Nine, an artificial intelligence (AI) graphic company, appeared on YTN’s ‘News Rider’ corner. In a 10-minute live interview, Jane introduced the history of virtual humans and the virtual human girl group Eternity to which Jane belongs. Currently, the number of views related to Jane’s interview on the official YTN YouTube channel has reached 20,000.
Pulse9 has newly developed ‘Deep Real Live’ technology for live broadcast appearances. It is a real-time synthesis (face swapping) technology at 30 frames per second on a real human body. The difference between the facial expression of the real band and the virtual expression was supplemented with ‘opacity blending’ to enhance realism. All you need to do is connect and transmit a computer with Pulse9’s conversion program installed without any additional equipment.
There is a debate going on among netizens who watched the interview. Reactions that are surprising and frightening for her natural appearance range from criticism to whether ‘Jane’ can be defined as a virtual human being. Some netizens pointed out, “Only the face is virtual and the person speaking is a kind of ‘deep fake’ or a ‘face application’ that fixes the face, and cannot be called a ‘virtual human’.”
An official from Pulse9 said, â??Deepfake is a technology that embodies a real person with AI, and our technology is a technology that synthesizes a virtual face created by AI into a real human body. He continued, â??It is different from the face filter in that it can accurately imitate human facial expressions and can be broadcast through TV channels. Unlike most face filters that work only from the ‘front’, the Pulse Nine technology implements a side view without collapsing the face.â?
The industry is trying to create a virtual human that communicates in real time. Another company, ‘Deep Brain AI’, is supplying an ‘AI Human’ solution that AI also conducts conversations with. A human model was filmed in the studio and a chatbot was attached to it so that it could respond in under a second. Recently, ‘AI Sonny’ modeled after Son Heung-min is a representative example.
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