Move over Siri, Alexa: Say hello to world's first 'artificial human' NEON

Pranav Mistry-led Samsung STAR Labs unveils 'artificial' human at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and personal assistants like Siri and Alexa, creating an artificial human is perhaps the Next Big Thing that the tech tsars are looking at. While that will take some time, may be years, to come to fruition, electronics major Samsung’s STAR Labs, headed by computer scientist Pranav Mistry, has made some key progress in this endeavour.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the Labs on Tuesday unveiled what it claimed is the world’s first ‘artificial human’ christened NEON.

NEON — which is a portmanteau of Neo (New) and Human