At Wired magazine’s Big Interview festival in San Francisco, AARP held what it called science fair for the future of aging as part of its ongoing AgeTech Collaborative. “Though all the tech was scintillating,” Wired wrote. “The show was stolen by a hermetically sealed Howie Mandel…. The subject being hologrammed can see and hear the hologram viewer latency-free, allowing for an unprecedented level of digital and emotional connection. Earlier in the day attendees were prompting the AI version of Mandel to check the weather in Spanish or provide fun facts from the internet in Italian. And thanks to Proto’s text-to-persona technology, the AI model can understand and respond in almost any language. However, during the lunch break, AI Howie was quietly replaced with flesh-and-blood Howie, beamed live from Proto’s studio in Van Nuys, California. Mandel held court for the better part of the lunch break, taking questions and cutting it up with attendees while extolling the virtues of Proto’s groundbreaking technology.
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