We present a novel prompting strategy for artificial intelligence driven digital avatars. To better quantify how our prompting strategy affects anthropomorphic features like humor, authenticity, and favorability we present Crowd Vote - an adaptation of Crowd Score that allows for judges to elect a large language model (LLM) candidate over competitors answering the same or similar prompts. To visualize the responses of our LLM, and the effectiveness of our prompting strategy we propose an end-to-end framework for creating high-fidelity artificial intelligence (AI) driven digital avatars. This pipeline effectively captures an individual's essence for interaction and our streaming algorithm delivers a high-quality digital avatar with real-time audio-video streaming from server to mobile device. Both our visualization tool, and our Crowd Vote metrics demonstrate our AI driven digital avatars have state-of-the-art humor, authenticity, and favorability outperforming all competitors and baselines. In the case of our Donald Trump and Joe Biden avatars, their authenticity and favorability are rated higher than even their real-world equivalents.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of digital content creation, the demand for fast, convenient, and autonomous methods of crafting detailed 3D reconstructions of humans has grown significantly. Addressing this pressing need, our AirNeRF system presents an innovative pathway to the creation of a realistic 3D human avatar. Our approach leverages Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with an automated drone-based video capturing method. The acquired data provides a swift and precise way to create high-quality human body reconstructions following several stages of our system. The rigged mesh derived from our system proves to be an excellent foundation for free-view synthesis of dynamic humans, particularly well-suited for the immersive experiences within gaming and virtual reality.

Mobility systems worldwide confront escalating challenges--aging infrastructure, increasing environmental impacts from transportation emissions, and widening service provision gaps that exacerbate social inequalities. Addressing these challenges demands smart and adaptive planning strategies to effectively leverage both mature and emerging technologies--including autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, low-latency communication, and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platforms. Shared Automated Electric Mobility Systems (SAEMS), exemplified by demand-responsive autonomous transit and passenger car services, autonomous electric micro-mobility systems, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery services, present a conceptual framework for integrating and leveraging these existing and promising technologies and addressing the escalating challenges. However, the full advantages and potential side effects of SAEMS often remain uncertain due to environmental, technological, and socioeconomic factors. This ambiguity underscores the importance of integrating a broad spectrum of domain knowledge and perspectives--ranging from land use zoning to charging infrastructure engineering, and from local business operations to residents' daily experiences-- into coherent planning processes.

Dr. Mario did not prepare us for this. In a pioneering effort, researchers from UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, in partnership with Edinburgh-based Speech Graphics, have devised a groundbreaking communications system that allows a woman, paralyzed by stroke, to speak freely through a digital avatar she controls with a brain-computer interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are devices that monitor the analog signals produced by your gray matter and convert them into the digital signals that computers understand -- like a mixing soundboard's DAC unit but what fits inside your skull. For this study, researchers led by Dr. Edward Chang, chair of neurological surgery at UCSF, first implanted a 253-pin electrode array into speech center of the patient's brain. Those probes monitored and captured the electrical signals that would have otherwise driven the muscles in her jaw, lips and tongue, and instead, transmitted them through a cabled port in her skull to a bank of processors.

Artificial intelligence, popularly known as AI, is a branch of computer sciences relating to building smart machines capable of performing tasks that would, otherwise, require human intelligence. Technology has been on an upward trajectory with the potential of India's technology services industry achieving $300-350 billion in annual revenue by 2025, if it can exploit the fast-emerging business potential in cloud, AI, cybersecurity and other emerging technologies, according to a report by McKinsey. AI is not limited to the world of science fiction. As a technology, AI-driven chatbots are revolutionizing business processes in multiple industries, while also impacting several aspects of people's lives. Various markets are embracing AI to be smart in today's always-on world.

AI is the growth engine of Metaverse. To fire the Metaverse engine, you need AI Fuel. I know you can't agree more! The idea of the metaverse was first coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in the early 90s. It was eventually developed in parts by companies like Second Life, Decentraland, Microsoft, and most recently, Meta.

Raghu Ravinutala is CEO and co-founder of enterprise-grade conversational AI platform Yellow.ai. After 27 years since the commercialization of the internet, 5 billion people have an online presence today. The first two phases of the Web--Web 1.0 and 2.0--were relatively staid compared to what's coming. Today, we're on the threshold of Web3 and the metaverse--internet environments where transactions are logged on the blockchain and powered by AI. By 2026, Web3 technologies--such as digital twins, smart spaces, virtual and augmented reality, and advanced virtual assistants--will transform how people interact with the world.

A new phone app which offers users a free digital avatar is taking facial-recognition quality photographs and sending them to Moscow, prompting major concerns within the cyber security community. Tens of thousands of people have already uploaded their photographs to the servers of the New Profile Pic app in return to the free avatar. However, many will be unaware that the company behind the app, Linerock Investments, is based in an apartment complex overlooking the Moscow River, beside Russia's Ministry of Defence and just three miles from Red Square. Jake Moore, Global Cybersecurity Advisor, ESET Internet Security told MailOnline that people have to be incredibly careful when uploading photographs or personal data to a brand new website. He said: 'This app is likely a way of capturing people's faces in high resolution and I would question any app wanting this amount of data, especially one which is largely unheard of and based in another country.'

The remote distributed workplace of today is already vastly different from what we could have imagined just a couple of years ago, but this is nothing compared to the changes being ushered in by the metaverse. The 3D internet and the technologies surrounding it promise radical new levels of social connectedness, mobility, and collaboration inside a virtual workplace that still sounds like science fiction to actually come true. "Imagine a world where you could have a beachside conversation with your colleagues, take meeting notes while floating around a space station, or teleport from your office in London to New York, all without taking a step outside your front door," invites Mark Purdy, an economics and technology advisor writing in the Harvard Business Review. The implications of the emerging metaverse for the world of work have received little attention, he contends, yet companies everywhere need to get ready or get bypassed by talent and innovation. He identifies four major ways future work will morph.

How does it feel to be an artist now watching the evolution of technology? New developments in AI technology allow us to look at cultural history in a very different way. We need to look at the impact of technology on the individual. We are talking about a new historical period, the emergence of digital personas that pave the way for a new morality. Technology has been rapidly improving the human experience since the 1950's. Most inventions lead to their use right away.