At SIGGRAPH 2022, NVIDIA announced the launch of the cloud-native artificial intelligence (AI) model and service Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), claiming that it can help developers create digital assistants that can pass the Turing test.
Claiming to be able to pass the Turing test means that the digital assistant built with the Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine will perform close to or at the same level of human intelligence, which is also the goal that many digital assistant services currently hope to achieve.
NVIDIA emphasizes that any size enterprise using the Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine service to build and customize realistic digital assistants or digital humans can connect and understand multiple languages, respond quickly to voice prompts, and interact with the environment, thereby creating a more realistic real-time interactive experience.
The Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine service includes NVIDIA Riva for developing voice AI applications, NVIDIA Metropolis for computer vision and intelligent image analysis, NVIDIA Merlin for high-performance recommendation systems, NVIDIA NeMo Megatron for large-scale language models with natural language understanding capabilities, and the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for creating animations using AI.
Prior to this, NVIDIA launched Project Maxine and Project Tokkio, both built with the Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine service. The former can provide cutting-edge audio and video capabilities for virtual collaboration and content creation applications, while the latter can enable interactive virtual avatars to see, perceive, intelligently engage in conversation and provide suggestions, enhancing customer service in places such as restaurants.
As more digital assistants and digital humans built with the Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine service become available in the future, NVIDIA expects this to transform the interaction models of industries such as gaming, entertainment, banking, transportation, and hospitality.
