📨 Weekly digest: 4 2024 | AI avatars for everything

After all, you're just a human | Robocaller for Joe Biden; Google Chrome x AI; Zuck with Ray Bans

Hello friends,

What if avatars were the answer?

According to Languagers, an ASL service provider, deaf individuals prefer sign language over closed captioning or subtitles because it has a grammatical structure and expression that is distinct from any other language.

Engaging with the information in the language that deaf people see as their first is, therefore, considerably simpler. This AI-generated avatar utilizes machine learning to translate auditory signals into visible sign language¹.

In this context, avatars' virtual environment (VE) provides more possibilities for humans to work and be entertained with fewer physical restrictions.

We can benefit from "anonymity"—one of the important features of VEs—so we, users, can receive visual stimuli that might differ from the physical environment through digital representations.

Now imagine a future where digital representations increasingly become the norm, whether we want it or not. We are about to immerse ourselves into an immersive world, and everything in front of us will be better within this mixed reality.

As an artificial space extends from the physical environment, mixed reality can come as an asset to the world and offer a wide range of possibilities to support humans' activities by possibly changing physical (e.g., distance, gravity, size) and social constraints (e.g., appearance, anonymity).

At the collective level, using avatars that share the same social identities in a group leads users to identify themselves as part of the group with given social identity cues rather than individual identity cues².

For example, when solving creative problems together, we can apply mechanisms based on social identities.

At some point, whether you love or hate them, you may wonder if they are the perfect mate.

And if the algorithm gets more sophisticated and gives you a better match because their reality was always somewhat less than you had hoped, you can always switch because, after all, you're just a human.

Looking forward to reading your thoughts in a comment.

Happy days,

Yael and al.

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• Google Chrome gains AI features, including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer on TechCrunch
  

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1. CODA translates spoken word into sign language almost instantaneously (Pexels) on NoCamel

2. Boosting creativity through users’ avatars and contexts in virtual environments on MDPI