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Riding the ChatGPT technology express, virtual digital humans are equipped with the 'strongest AI brain'

The explosive popularity of ChatGPT and GPT-4 AI technologies has brought about new technological changes, which may equip virtual digital humans with the "strongest AI brain" and further push the virtual digital human industry into a new wave.

Take the ChatGPT technology express train

Virtual digital humans equipped with the 'strongest AI brain'

Virtual digital humans are intelligent products generated through technologies such as 3D modeling, deep learning, speech synthesis, and image rendering, which can simulate the image and behavioral characteristics of humans. Generating a virtual digital human requires multiple support technologies such as computer animation, motion capture, AI, and efficient computing algorithms. The emergence of ChatGPT has brought a new turning point for the development of AI driven virtual digital humans.

The second issue of the "China Virtual Digital Human Influence Index Report" proposes that generative AI represented by ChatGPT will empower the "intelligent evolution" of virtual digital humans. At the same time, AIGC technology combined with vertical scenes will also expand the application fields, reduce costs, and enhance the monetization ability of virtual digital humans. According to IDC data, it is expected that the market size of AI digital humans in China will reach 10.24 billion yuan by 2026, and the market will show a high-speed growth trend.

Expected to become the best embodiment of ChatGPT application

Natural language processing models can help enhance the interactive experience of virtual digital humans, truly giving them a soul. The high flexibility demonstrated by ChatGPT has given people a new understanding of AI. It is more like a natural person than ordinary AI robots, with more comprehensive mining and sorting of information and knowledge, and processing of sentences that are closer to human daily communication and expression states.

Several industry insiders have stated that integrating ChatGPT can help virtual digital humans better understand and respond to human interaction language, thereby greatly enhancing the human-machine dialogue experience. According to Caixin, as of now, several listed companies including Yuanlong Yatu, Fengyuzhu, Tianyu Shuke, etc. have announced that their related businesses have integrated ChatGPT technology or are studying the application scenarios of combining related technology with virtual digital humans.

At the same time, in the past, digital humans had the "shackles" of high production costs, high shooting technology barriers, and long production times. However, "ChatGPT+digital humans" can effectively break these three "shackles". In the past, modelers may have needed several months to complete surreal digital human images, but now they can be completed in just one week.

The embedding of ChatGPT is like installing an AI brain on a "personified" virtual digital person. Not only can it achieve more accurate, smooth, and natural expression, but it can also provide users with more personalized services through rapid learning and adaptation. Through targeted training of relevant data to form personalized models, virtual humans are expected to be applied in various scenarios such as AI explanations and introductions of digital humans in offline exhibition halls, online AI anchors, and AIGC fast short video systems in the future.

The combination of virtual digital humans and generative AI may be a key node in the development of the entire industry, and the two are interacting with each other. Shen Hao, chief scientist of the Big Data Center of the State Key Laboratory of Media Integration and Communication of Communication University of China, believes that the introduction of generative AI will endow virtual digital people with "the strongest brain". Industry experts have also expressed that virtual digital humans are expected to become the best embodiment and interface for ChatGPT applications.

GPT-4 explores AI virtual digital humans

In addition, OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT, has recently launched GPT-4, which will allow users who access APIs to customize the "personality" of AI and bring related technologies into virtual human scenarios, making virtual humans become real "people".

Compared to ChatGPT's fixed language style, GPT-4 will allow users who access APIs to customize the "personality" of AI. According to relevant predictions, GPT-4 will further optimize the feedback mechanism of virtual humans, similar to the domestic AI dialogue application Glow, which can allow users to converse with virtual humans with different backgrounds and scenes such as "Iron Man" TonyStark, bringing related technologies into virtual human scenes and making virtual humans become real "people".

In addition, with the improvement of computing power and the upgrade of GPT-4 model, virtual digital humans will output text, images, audio and video, and even subtle emotional expressions, which will enable virtual digital humans to integrate social, creative, and sharing abilities. Therefore, after the launch of GPT-4, virtual digital humans are expected to further benefit and become a killer application that carries multiple modalities.

装上“最强AI大脑”

Not only ChatGPT, but other AI models or AIGC technologies will also continue to empower the virtual digital human industry. For example, Li Shiyan, the head of Baidu's digital human and robot business, stated that currently, with the support of technologies such as large models, digital humans can automatically generate a personalized graphic content, action video, and even "act" based on text requirements. For example, in live streaming e-commerce scenarios, when you tell a digital person about the main features, prices, and product advantages of a product being promoted, and ask them to design three live streaming scripts in a hilarious comedy style, the digital person platform will directly provide several different styles of scripts.

For example, Shunwang Technology announced that its digital character "Xiaojing" has applied AIGC to the esports hotel industry, helping hotel owners achieve intelligent management. This technology runs through the entire process of the birth of the digital character "Xiaojing" and its scene application.

By connecting to the 'strongest AI brain', the emotional experience of virtual digital humans may become even richer. Professor Shen Yang from the School of Journalism at Tsinghua University believes that the cost of using digital human solutions will gradually decrease, and the functionality will further expand to the C-end. Not only will there be virtual idols for fans, but personalized virtual digital humans will also be further extended. There is a blue ocean in areas such as child care, aging technology, and single economy, and even each user can have their own virtual avatar to undertake certain functional avatars or play emotional companionship roles. The development of virtual digital humans in the future will no longer rely solely on technology, but will bring users unprecedented emotional experiences.