As this article notes, "The use of digital humans is spreading rapidly, not just in games and advertising, but also in education, health care, customer service, online sales and much more." It turns out they do human interaction better than humans; "the company UneeQ claims that one of its clients tripled its conversion rate when they started using digital humans." This makes it important for young people to learn about digital humans, but "the subject is currently at a standstill," write Elisa Nadire Caeli and Thomas Telving. There's a need for technology education to keep children prepared for the rapidly changing environment. "One hope could be that the first thing that comes to a child's mind when meeting Miquela Sousa online isn't that she is a super-cool girl, but that she's a robot made by marketers with the sole intention of selling products to her followers."
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