In the Netflix sci-fi series Altered Carbon, there is a charming male character called Poe. He’s a hotel manager that’s really an Artificial Inte

Coming Soon From Google: A Hologram AI That Behaves Like a Real Person

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2021-06-07 12:30:08

In the Netflix sci-fi series Altered Carbon, there is a charming male character called Poe. He’s a hotel manager that’s really an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered hologram.

Since he’s in the hospitality business, Poe is programmed to have a warm and empathetic personality. Although he is capable of understanding and displaying human emotions, sometimes he does verge on being too eager to please.

Poe represents the holy grail that AI researchers doing ‘multimodal machine learning’ have been after for some time — the ability to fully integrate language, visual and acoustic understanding into one cohesive model— so that they can build an interactive AI that can understand information contextually and respond just as a human would.

For example, how does one interpret the sentence “You must be joking” in a text message? It could be a casual remark, humor, or an expression of frustration — all depending on the facial expression and tone of the person saying it.