Virtual Assistants and Digital Humans on Pace to Ace Turing Test With New NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine
August 09 2022 - 12:42PM
NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE),
a suite of cloud-native AI models and services that make it easier
to build and customize lifelike virtual assistants and digital
humans.
By bringing these models and services to the cloud, ACE enables
businesses of any size to instantly access the massive computing
power needed to create and deploy assistants and avatars that
understand multiple languages, respond to speech prompts, interact
with the environment and make intelligent recommendations.
“Our industry has been on a decades-long journey teaching
computers to communicate and carry out complex tasks with ease that
humans take for granted,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of
Omniverse and simulation technology at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA ACE brings
this within reach. ACE combines many sophisticated AI technologies,
allowing developers to create digital assistants that are on a path
to pass the Turing test.”
ACE is built on top of NVIDIA’s Unified Compute Framework, which
provides access to the rich software tools and APIs needed to
harness the wide range of skills needed for highly realistic, fully
interactive avatars. These include NVIDIA Riva for developing
speech AI applications, NVIDIA Metropolis for computer vision and
intelligent video analytics, NVIDIA Merlin™ for high-performing
recommender systems, NVIDIA NeMo Megatron for large language models
with natural language understanding, and NVIDIA Omniverse for
AI-enabled animation.
The assistants and avatars ACE enables will transform
interactions in gaming, entertainment, banking, transportation and
hospitality.
Two applications built on ACE include NVIDIA’s Project Maxine
and Project Tokkio. Project Maxine brings state-of-the-art video
and audio features to virtual collaboration and content creation
applications. Project Tokkio enables interactive avatars that see,
perceive, converse intelligently and provide recommendations to
enhance customer service in places like restaurants.
Omniverse ACE SupportDevelopers of virtual
assistants and digital humans plan to use ACE to accelerate their
avatar development efforts.
“Reallusion developers can build convincing characters quickly
and easily, and now we step forward with the latest advancements in
artificial intelligence and real-time rendering,” said Elvis Huang,
head of innovation in the Innovation Development Department at
Reallusion, Inc. “Pairing our Character Creator and iClone tools
with NVIDIA’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine will be a great way to
create lifelike avatars that interact with end users
realistically.”
“Demand for digital humans and virtual assistants continues to
grow exponentially across industries, but creating and scaling them
is getting increasingly complex,” said Kevin Krewell, principal
analyst at TIRIAS Research. “NVIDIA’s Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine
brings together all of the AI cloud-based microservices needed to
more easily create and deliver lifelike, interactive avatars at
scale.”
Learn more about Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics and ignited the era of
modern AI. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with
data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More
information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine; digital assistants being on a path
to pass the Turing test with ACE; the assistants and avatars ACE
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assistants and digital humans planning to use ACE to accelerate
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