{"id":40978,"date":"2021-04-19T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T10:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40978"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:41:03","slug":"new-zealand-startup-creates-a-virtual-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/new-zealand-startup-creates-a-virtual-einstein\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand startup creates a virtual Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand startup Uneeq has created a digital version of Albert Einstein, using a synthetic voice modeled on the scientist and reconstructed with artificial intelligence and archival audio recordings. The project was timed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to the renowned physicist, the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/uneeq-uses-experiential-ai-to-bring-albert-einstein-back-to-life-as-latest-digital-companion-301268401.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/einstein.digitalhumans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Digital Einstein<\/a> can move realistically and speak with a voice that is as close as possible to that of the real scientist. Users can interact with the physicist&#8217;s avatar and pose questions on topics ranging from science to life and research.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Voice Cloning | AI Voice: Introducing Digital Einstein created with api.audio\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RiWB2o-9qMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For example, a Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ai-powered-albert-einstein-joins-uneeq-lineup-digital-humans-2021-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">journalist asked<\/a> the digital Einstein what he thinks about the flat Earth theory.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOf course the Earth is not flat. Don\u2019t say nonsense,\u201d the digital Einstein replied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked about the coronavirus and vaccination, the avatar said that he hopes for a quick resolution to this problem and a return to normal life.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPlease stay safe, stay healthy and hug your loved ones as often as possible,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uneeq said that, despite the threats posed by deepfakes, their technology has great potential in educational projects.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/experts-the-number-of-deepfakes-online-doubles-roughly-every-six-months\">arrested a woman<\/a> for distributing deepfake videos of teenage girls. In doing so, she aimed to undermine her daughter&#8217;s rivals in the cheerleading group.<\/p>\n<p>In December of last year, the British broadcaster Channel 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/alibaba-used-ai-to-identify-minorities-uk-shows-queen-elizabeth-ii-deepfake-and-other-ai-news\">released a deepfake of Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> as an alternative Christmas greeting.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand startup Uneeq has created a digital version of Albert Einstein with a synthetic voice, reconstructed using artificial intelligence and archival audio recordings. The project was timed to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to the renowned physicist, according to the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-40978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40979,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40978\/revisions\/40979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}