Is This Creepy New AI Assistant Too Lifelike?

Some people already talk to Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa like she's a real person, setting her up for jokes, and having conversations that go way beyond the basic commands like "Alexa, play'Hurt' by Nine Inch Nails." And that's how people are treating a disembodied voice. But what if you could see her -- and what if she looked disturbingly human? Magic Leap, an augmented-reality startup, introduced the next evolution of the virtual assistant at their conference earlier this month. Mica performs many of the same functions as Alexa or Apple's Siri, but when users wear Magic Leap's augmented reality glasses, they can also see her incredibly life-like avatar.