Min-Liang Tan
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Sure.
Sure.
So actually...
Yeah, somewhat.
Well, it's not so much in the specific verbatim words of I want to anime waifu and things like that.
But we did hack together a holographic projector to have a character there.
And we had ideas like that in the past before, right?
Where...
We've created holographic projectors for game companies back in the day to say, hey, look, is there a way that we can do a holographic representation of some of your latest characters and stuff like that?
But with AI, we were able now to be able to get that personality there, the conversational AI coming through.
And I think the tipping point for us was really not just making great hardware and making
Not just having great software, but now with great intelligence, I think, coming out together with it.
And it's that premise of being able to have a kind of a semi-physical representation of an avatar, being able to chat as opposed to clicking a button or typing on something and having a little thing over there.
it's really exciting imaginations for ourselves.
You know, it's cool.
We've always had that, whether it's a game like a super AI in Halo, Cortana, you know, for example, right?
So it's a little bit of sci-fi, us growing up, always wanting something cool like that.
And we said, hey, you know, it's a great concept and I think community loves it.
Well, for us, I think in this case, it's more a, well, I'm familiar with that, of course.
Just checking.