Samsung unveils AI-powered digital avatar

Sebastian Seung, executive vice president and chief research scientist of Samsung Research, speaking during a press event at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Every year during the second week of January nearly 200,000 people gather in Las Vegas for the tech industry's most-maligned, yet well-attended event: the consumer electronics show. - Bloomberg

LAS VEGAS/SINGAPORE: A Samsung lab on Tuesday (Jan 7) unveiled a digital avatar it described as an AI-powered "artificial human," claiming it is able to "converse and sympathise" like real people.

The announcement at the opening of the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas touted a new kind of artificial intelligence called NEON, produced by the independent Samsung unit Star Labs.