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One of Marilyn Monroe‘s most famous quotes was, “I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.”

Andrew Wallenstein President and Chief Media Analyst Soul Machines is a fascinating venture that is marrying state-of-the-art animation with artificial intelligence to create something that just might be the next big thing in entertainment. The company has been around since 2016, having raised over $135 million from some of the leading venture capital funds in the world including Softbank. The vision Soul Machines is selling is the ability to enable consumers to interact one on one with a CGI simulation of their favorite celebrity powered by artificial intelligence. Listen to the podcast here: “Think about this way of, how we can democratize a fan experience where you can go to a website and you could have a face-to-face conversation with what we talk about as a digital twin,” said Greg Cross, CEO of Soul Machines, on the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business.”

Mark Tuan, also a member of K-pop boyband GOT7, has launched his new GPT-powered AI “Digital Twin”.The new AI version of the K-pop singer, dubbed “Digital Mark”, is in collaboration with technology company Soul Machines, and uses OpenAI’s GPT integration. Digital Mark will allow fans to have “unique one-on-one conversations” with the singer’s “Digital Twin”.

Partner Content Traditional media channels like film and broadcast TV are great ways to deliver star power at scale, providing celebrities one-way communication with a massive number of their fans.Social media allows celebrities to connect with fans in a more interactive way. Still, that can quickly become overwhelming, if they have millions of fans.