I Chatted With Google's Lifesize, Hyperreal AI Companion
At Google I/O, a demo showcased Google's Beam, a telepresence video technology featuring a hyper-realistic AI video agent. The AI agent, designed to engage users in conversation, demonstrated capabilities such as generating images and providing recommendations. While the technology impressed many, questions remain about its practical applications and potential impact on jobs.
- ▪Google Beam is a telepresence video technology that aims to connect people as if they were sitting across from each other.
- ▪The demo featured a hyper-realistic AI video agent that could engage in conversation and generate images on request.
- ▪Concerns were raised about the potential for AI agents to replace human jobs in various settings.
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Sitting down in a comfortably air-conditioned booth in the overheated outdoor demo landscape at Google I/O this week, I had a pleasant and uncanny chat with a smiling person who wasn't actually there. Nor were they even a real human being. The booth was a demo setup of Google Beam, a large-screen camera-studded telepresence video screen device. As we talked eye to eye, it all felt shockingly real. I've experienced Google Beam demos before, back when it was called Project Starline: with actual humans on the other end, in holographic glasses-free 3D. This was a whole new twist, and while the demo was 2D, it could easily adopt 3D rendering, too. @scottsteinsayshi A hyper realistic uncanny AI video agent demo via Google Beam at Google IO. And yeah it made AI images of me.
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