The World Health Organization’s first virtual health worker has been designed by San Francisco and New Zealand-based company, Soul Machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The WHO launched Florence as a \u2018trusted source of information\u2019, designed to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. It uses Artificial Intelligence to dispel myths on both COVID-19 and smoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The organization said quitting smoking is more important than ever as evidence reveals that smokers are more vulnerable than non-smokers to developing a severe case of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The technology was developed by San Francisco and New Zealand-based company, Soul Machines, which says the way it is designed means every interaction is unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We would call Florence a digital person,” said Greg Cross, Co-Founder of Soul Machines.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “She’s a CGI creation just as we see in the movies, but what’s unique about Florence and other digital people like her is she is autonomously animated by a digital brain. You’re having a face-to-face interaction with a digital person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “One of the things we know from our day-to-day lives is we learn to build relationships, we learn to build trust, with face-to-face interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The World Health Organization’s first virtual health worker has been designed by San Francisco and New Zealand-based company, Soul Machines. The WHO launched Florence as a \u2018trusted source of information\u2019, designed to help the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users quit. It uses Artificial Intelligence to dispel myths on both COVID-19 and smoking. The organization said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,55,40,44],"tags":[243,498,77,496,495],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-verticals-healthcare","category-oceania","category-software","category-top-stories","tag-covid-19","tag-florence","tag-new-zealand","tag-san-francisco","tag-world-health-organization"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}