NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces ‘James’ a digital human that you’ll be able to interact with [Video]

At SIGGRAPH 2024, NVIDIA introduced and expanded on the future of digital humans by introducing its latest AI advancement – adding a path-traced realistic-looking human face (and voice) with emotion and detailed animation to the idea of interacting with an AI assistant. This is a massive leap forward compared to the usual text-based interface for AI chatbots and assistants, and it was brought to life by the latest in RTX technologies.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and ‘James,’ the realistic digital human, image credit: NVIDIA.

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‘James’ is built using similar NVIDIA ACE technology that we went hands-on with at Computex 2024 as part of an interactive game demonstration where you interact with digital humans in real-time to solve a mystery. This time, however, it’s being used in the context of a virtual assistant or customer service agent.

‘James’ is also built on NVIDIA NIM microservices; Jensen Huang explains how it works …