Google's creepy new Gemini Live Avatars want to try and make online support bots feel more human
THE SO WHAT
Customer support is shifting from text boxes to synthetic faces—experience design and brand risk now sit alongside latency and accuracy in your AI stack decisions. If you deploy avatars, you’re not just choosing a model, you’re choosing a persona your customers will remember when it fails.
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