NVIDIA Reveals Platform for Creating AI Avatars
Jensen Huang presented new advanced tech for digital avatars.
NVIDIA revealed NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar, a technology platform for generating interactive AI avatars. The new Omniverse Avatar tech is said to connect the company’s technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, recommendation engines, and simulation technologies. The generated avatars created in the platform are interactive characters with ray-traced 3D graphics that can see, speak, converse on a wide range of subjects, and understand naturally spoken intent.
"The dawn of intelligent virtual assistants has arrived," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Omniverse Avatar combines NVIDIA’s foundational graphics, simulation and AI technologies to make some of the most complex real-time applications ever created. The use cases of collaborative robots and virtual assistants are incredible and far-reaching."
Omniverse Avatar is part of NVIDIA Omniverse, a virtual world simulation and collaboration platform for 3D workflows currently in open beta with over 70,000 users. During the keynote, Huang shared various examples of how the tech can be used: Project Tokkio for customer support, NVIDIA DRIVE Concierge for always-on, intelligent services in vehicles, and Project Maxine for video conferencing.
One of the demos showed an avatar crafted as a toy replica of Huang, plus there was a Project Tokkio demo showing a customer-service avatar in a restaurant kiosk, able to see, converse with and understand two customers as they ordered veggie burgers, fries and drinks.
The new tech is based on NVIDIA Riva, a software development kit that recognizes speech across multiple languages. Riva also has the ability to generate human-like speech responses using text-to-speech capabilities. The team also noted that natural language understanding is based on the Megatron 530B large language model that can recognize, understand and generate human language.
You can learn more about the tech and other news from the keynote here. Don't forget to join our new Reddit page, our new Telegram channel, follow us on Instagram and Twitter, where we are sharing breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.
