{"id":11905,"date":"2020-04-13T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=11905"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:04:35","slug":"build-an-ai-twin-to-attend-video-calls-in-your-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/13\/build-an-ai-twin-to-attend-video-calls-in-your-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Build an AI twin to attend video calls in your absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hah&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/man-who-made-a-digital-ai-powered-twin-for-video-calls-1842705724\">this is rather brilliant<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Reed has shared a longer explainer of how his\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/redpepper.land\/blog\/zoombot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zoombot works<\/a>\u00a0over on\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/redpepper.land\/blog\/zoombot\/\" target=\"_blank\">redpepper\u2019s website<\/a>, but it started with a handful of selfie screenshots he snapped in Quicktime of himself sitting at his desk, with various head poses and states of speech, while staring at his computer\u2019s webcam. These were then used as source material for a custom webapp Reed created that relies on an open-source tool called\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sdkcarlos.github.io\/sites\/artyom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Artyom.js<\/a>\u00a0that can trigger automated synthesized responses using voice recognition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matt tries to ditch all his Zoom calls using AI\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZ2MOePZuRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[Via Rajat Paharia]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hah&#8211;this is rather brilliant: Reed has shared a longer explainer of how his\u00a0Zoombot works\u00a0over on\u00a0redpepper\u2019s website, but it started with a handful of selfie screenshots he snapped in Quicktime of himself sitting at his desk, with various head poses and states of speech, while staring at his computer\u2019s webcam. These were then used as source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}