Samsung tweets cryptic plans to unveil an "artificial human"

Samsung is teasing plans to unveil what it calls an "artificial human" called NEON at the Consumer Electronics Show, which kicks off January 7. For the past couple of weeks, a series of posts from the official NEON social media accounts have asked the same question in various languages -- "Have you ever met an'ARTIFICIAL'?" Other than those posts and a NEON website that boasts little more than a countdown to CES 2019, though, Samsung hasn't had much to say about the project -- but bizarrely, Indian-British filmmaker and actor Shekhar Kapur has posted quite a bit about it on social media, suggesting he might be involved in the project in some way. "Finally, Artifical [sic] Intelligence that will make you wonder which one of you is real," reads one of Kapur's recent tweets, with another urging CES visitors to stop by the NEON corner to learn more about "an Artificial Intelligence being as your best friend." One thing Samsung will say about NEON is that it is not related to the company's AI-powered digital assistant Bixby.