Podcasts Technology Listening To The Future Digital Humans & Soul Machines

Digital Humans & Soul Machines

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 4 p.m.

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What is a digital human? Why would anyone need one at any given point in time?\\xa0 What are the most common usecases for the digital human? How autonomously can the digital humans have a conversation? What moral questions does this technological development raise? Which jobs are digital humans going to take over from us?\\xa0

Guest of today is Una Softic. She is Vice President of Soul Machines. The Company Soul Machines is creating emotionally-responsive, hyperrealistic, autonomously-animated digital people. They call themselves a \\u201cA Digital People company.\\u201d As noted, they create lifelike, AI-powered, customer-facing digital avatars. Soul Machines currently has over 150 employees with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Tokyo and Auckland. Una and I got introduced by our mutual partners at IBM Benelux. She is also a speaker at the IBM Cloud & AI Summit on November 19 & 20. If you want to be part of this event: check the shownotes on jarnoduursma.nl/podcast. In the past, Una was Head of Innovation Nikkei in Tokyo, Japan.\\xa0

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