The crazy new artificial people of Samsung aren't the smart droids you've been waiting for

Samsung's new "AI people's" are crazy that you have never seen before.

Image Source: www.neon.life

Tech firms will use the CES event at the beginning of January to launch the first commercial artificial humans you can take home with you. CES 2020 isn't it, and the "artificial human" project by Samsung that has seen a lot of hypes over the past few weeks is hardly the kind of android device you would expect. What the Star Labs subsidiary of Samsung has shown at CES is a technology capable of creating better-looking avatars, but even that is being challenged, as Samsung's imagery used to display Neon is being fictionalized and replicated.
The digital avatars Star Labs uses to illustrate on the Neon website their artificial human project look a lot like real humans, and we may soon see these virtual humans around. The issue with these photos is that the real capabilities of their technology may not be highlighted Samsung makes it clear at CES, as The Verge points out, that these robot demos may be misleading:

Scenarios shown in our CES booth and our advertising material are fictionalized and replicated for illustrative purposes only.

If the CES demos aren't actual, then what should we do with the photos on Neon's website?

Image Source: www.neon.life

Neon problems don't end there, as the subsidiary of Samsung makes bold claims about the Neon capabilities. Such devices are meant to show "emotions and intellect," and should be able to respond to queries "with less than a few milliseconds of latency." They should also protect your privacy.

Yet Samsung doesn't clarify the technology that would make it all possible. Forget about these robotic human's physical appearance for a second, that's the last thing that matters. More essential is the AI that can power these "beings"— and they aren't beings.not they're Here are the website's other claims:

Image Source: www.neon.life

For that, you need a strong OS or a highly complex application that can run on any operating system out there. For example, Google already has a powerful Google Assistant that is probably as close as we are now to an artificial human. Google Assistant works on almost every device even though it feels at home on Android, where Google can integrate it seamlessly into the underlying Operating system and can do a bunch of smart things you would expect from an artificial human. What is missing from Google Assistant is a body and a face— the same goes for Alexa, Siri, and all the rest.

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Samsung still has to prove that Bixby can be a decent Google Assistant, and Bixby can provide Neon with the brains. So the brains of Neon are still to be demonstrated.
The Neon demos prove that Samsung is more interested in developing the AI face but, unfortunately, the prototypes don't even show the actual functioning avatar. Instead, we look at images that are misleading

However, Star Labs has big plans for the tech and will push it for some time to come as an artificial human project:

In the coming years, as a service representative, a financial advisor, a health care provider, or a concierge, will be able to license or subscribe to a NEON. Over time, NEONs are going to work as TV anchors, spokespeople, or actors in movies; or they can simply be friends and companions.

"Neon is like a new kind of life," said Mistry, CEO of Star Labs in a press release, but everything we've seen so far proves that Neon really isn't a life of any kind. Neon is like an interesting new type of CES vaporware to be treated accordingly.

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