World’s first AI news anchor debuts in China
Team Udayavani, Nov 10, 2018, 3:44 PM IST
Beijing: The world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor made “his” debut at the ongoing fifth World Internet Conference in east China’s Zhejiang province.
AI is a way of making a machine or a software ‘think’ and ‘demonstrate’ intelligently in a manner similar to humans.
The AI news anchor has a male image with a voice, facial expressions and actions of a real person.
“He” learns from live broadcasting videos by himself and can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.
The AI news anchor was jointly developed by Xinhua and the Chinese search engine company, Sogou.com.
According to Xinhua, “he” has become a member of its reporting team and can work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms, reducing news production costs and improving efficiency.
In 2015, China’s Shanghai Dragon TV had “employed” a robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast show, which evoked concerns among Chinese television anchors that in near future machines may threaten their jobs.
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