Can you tell the real newsreader from the Artificial Intelligence fake?
Xinhau, a Chinese state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China showcased the first Chinese and English artificial intelligence anchors, debuted at the World Internet Conference.
Using digital composites created from previous footage of human hosts reading the news, they can replicate the speech patterns and tone.
Each anchor can work up to 24 hours a day, and can scour multiple social media platforms. This is properly performed as codes and information is typed into their system ‘completely uninterrupted’, that causes no risk regarding human error, improve efficiency of the ability to gather information and reduce media production costs.
The English AI’s voice and appearance is modelled after Zhang Zhao, who is a real anchor that works at the Xinhau company, while his Chinese counterpart is modelled after the Chinese anchor Qui Hao.
Although the AI voices are monotone and their facial features seem expressionless, they are portrayed as life-like and have perfect lip-syncing capabilities while talking. All of this will only improve, as the AI begins to learn about their sound, expressions and lip-shape as their knowledge is constantly developing.
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So, which Qui Hao is real, and which one is the AI?
(The answer, the one on the right is the AI! Spooky!)
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