Digital humans, virtual beings powered by artificial intelligence, can communicate with humans and interpret input, in addition to images that resemble real people. Artificial intelligence is not just simple answers, It also enables them to produce appropriate verbal and non-verbal actions.

The digital human platform announced by Chinese technology giant Tencent Cloud is called Deepfakes-as-a-Service (DFaaS). According to Tencent, it only takes three minutes of video, 100 sentences and more to create a high-resolution digital human with this service. $145 requires a fee. The digital character creation process is on your own lasts 24 hours.

What will be the characteristics and areas of use of digital people?

The Tencent Cloud digital people are available in half body or full body and are available in both Chinese and English. It can be customized as well as some details like the background and color tones. The robotic and unnatural way of speaking that we usually see in “digital people” is dropped with Tencent Cloud’s service. The digital humans produced on this platform speak and respond in a very natural flow.

Chen Lei, Managing Director of Intelligent Digital Human Products at Tencent Cloud, says the internet giant hopes to build an automated “Artificial Intelligence + Digital Intelligent Human Factory”. This factory will be based on the Tencent Cloud TI platform, a machine learning platform that offers more than 10 artificial intelligence algorithms.

Local media also reports that Tencent is able to create digital people such as doctors, lawyers and other professionals. It is also a matter of curiosity what could happen if this technology is misused.