Virtual girls are just like real people

The artificial intelligence of a New Zealand company feels just like talking to a young child.

Baby X , a digital product designed by filmmaker Mark Sagar and his company Soul Machines, is not just an artificial intelligence simulation, Sputnik News. 9 reported. This virtual embryonic development process lasts for almost 5 years and is based on the incredible face and nervous system model created by software engineers and neurophysiologists.

BabyX answers the question of the person in front of the screen. (Video: Bloomberg).

BabyX is based on the images of her daughter Sagar at 18 months and the appearance of this virtual baby girl is amazingly real. Virtual characters can laugh, frown, track the movement of people sitting in front of the computer screen.

In developing virtual characters, one of the most difficult issues is to minimize the effect of the " uncanny valley" that makes the product become as real as possible. Sagar's company based in the University of Auckland, New Zealand, is pioneering this field.

"From the age of 20, I had a burning desire to make the computer intelligent, to make it aware, and we wanted to build a system that was not just self-learning but also dynamic and interactive. So, I set the goal of trying to create a human cognitive model on the computer, " Bloomberg commented on Sagar.

BabyX includes a number of layers that simulate face and facial muscles. But the character is also modeled in detail in the process of neuroscience and biochemistry inside the human brain as well as the mechanism of memory formation.

Emotional intelligence of software-based character "learning machine" (machine learning) allows it emote voice and recognize human emotions through the camera, and imitate them. Virtual girls can also answer questions and play. The latest BabyX version has a full body sitting on a chair.