Future of Conversation - are digital humans ready to take over the world?

Have you ever wondered if robots will take over the world? We have for sure... And we even tried them... Digital Human or Embodied Conversational Agents are computer-generated characters that simulate human face-to-face conversation, including both verbal and nonverbal behavior. With the complex set of advanced technology components that stand behind them, such as computer-generated imagery, facial expressions recognition, voice analysis, natural language processing, and generation they have a great chance to use their emotional intelligence and build relationships with the user, but do the complexity and immaturity of technology allows them to get to real?

During this talk, I will explain how conversational agents work (or do not work), which services and technologies might be used to design the solution, how to design the architecture for conversational interfaces, what components the solution should have to fulfill the needs, what we can achieve already, including some tricks to tune the solution, and what are the challenges we can encounter.

Be prepared for some mind-blowing demos of Digital Humans and some bites of code that can be used to develop them.