As China develops AI-enabled nuclear submarines, a dystopian surveillance apparatus, and trains their "brightest children" to develop AI "killer bots," they're also about to put newscasters out of a job.
Meet Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua's newest anchor: an artificial intelligence which never sleeps - and uses deep learning techniques to appear more human.
"AI anchors have officially become members of the Xinhua News Agency reporting team," said the agency, adding "They will work with other anchors to bring you authoritative, timely and accurate news information in both Chinese and English."
The new AI anchors, launched by Xinhua and Beijing-based search engine operator Sogou during the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, can deliver the news with “the same effect” as human anchors because the machine learning programme is able to synthesise realistic-looking speech, lip movements and facial expressions, according to a Xinhua news report on Wednesday. -SCMP
As SCMP notes, AI anchors may save television networks millions of dollars if the AI anchors go mainstream.
Celebrity anchors are regarded as important assets at major news networks in the US. The highest paid news anchor, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, is reportedly paid US$100 million a year, while Diane Sawyer at ABC and Sean Hannity at Fox News earn US$80 million each. Celebrity anchors in China are generally paid a lot less because they work for state-run TV stations but they often earn extra money from product endorsements and book sales. -SCMP
And while you won't get those off-the-cuff quips from the likes of a Rachel Maddow-bot, or a juicy argument with the President of the United States from a Jim Acosta-bot, the digital anchors can provide a constant feed of nonstop information for those pinwheel-eyed news junkies out there.
According to Xinhua, the AI-anchor is a "breakthrough in the field of global AI synthesis," in that it merges real-time audio and video with AI-learned mannerisms. Search engine Sogou - which researches and develops AI, is providing the base technology for the program.
>calling other monkeys, while their ancestry is littered wing mongrel DNA Call yourself a Chinese, chink. I fucking dare you to call yourself a dead race.
Methods are simple. They're using some basic deep learning text to speech, mixed with a GAN trained on speech and facial movements. All this has been done before.
Jordan Hall
Based.
Jaxon Martinez
No wonder, they're only capable of stealing and copying like failed niggers as they are.
meanwhile whitecucks need 100 years to use 200 years old tech because muh morality
Hudson Adams
Googles TTS network wavenet is centuries ahead of the chink copy, it actually sounds extremely human, almost indistinguishable from the real thing. This is actually bad "China numba wahn!" propaganda, mixed with years old deep learning research.
Lincoln Harris
Good job China.
Wyatt King
I'm watching you, you sewage gutter oil rat. You've made chink propaganda thread yesterday and the day before. Don't you fucking dare to even think that your little commie "culture" propaganda will be left unnoticed.
lol, you don't use it. You only lambast it for the world to see in order to create an illusion that you have some "power", while you filthy chinks live in shitter streets, hunt wild dogs for food, breath the "clean" ash air on daily basis and pray to your dead chink so you wont be sent to labor camp. But I'm sure your sorry filthy ass is worth to be sent, you can feel "proud" on working for your party. 六四天安门事件 1989年天安门广场大屠杀 1989年天安門廣場大屠殺
It doesn't sound real at all, and that's comparing it to their choppy, sharp, aliens-from-Mars-Attack sounding bug speak. Compared to real human language it sounds absurdly artificial.
Luis Jackson
Anime watchers are on the same level of filth as Zig Forums, which is filled with cross-dressing, "sissy" LARPing faggots who choke on dick daily.
you're right, I'll stop watching anime and watch porn instead.
Carson Gutierrez
Remmber Max Headroom? Would have been hilarious to have Tay.ai be a talking head.
Asher Adams
40% of zoomers regularly watch anime
Jordan Clark
That one is the intro and outro from the TV movie, this video has actual funny clips from the TV show.
Luke Rivera
Why didn't they pick a girl? The acceptance rate of fake news would sky rocket.
Oliver Robinson
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William Mitchell
So this is why fake news meme pisses them off so much.
Brody Peterson
The media corporations will no longer have to worry about their host going off message.
Jaxon Harris
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Jose Harris
LOL
Caleb Roberts
The CCP is only legitimate as long as they are able to maintain the illusion of real prosperity. It's only a matter of time before the consequences of all the misallocation of resources that happens under CCP jurisdiction starts to be felt by the majority of even the normie population. If you think that their shoddy shit tier "surveillance state" can actually prevent a Chink uprising, you have never been to China. The Commie Scum are operating on borrowed time and their options for expanding credit are hitting a hard wall. Some of them at the top realize this which is why you see the government regressing to a tin pot dictatorship. They are preparing for economic collapse.
Arent you supposed to suck off some niggers dick in front of a synagogue to preserve your 5D chess image and and BTFO leftist calling you a Nazi epic style?
Logan Martinez
spoopy
Matthew Young
I hope the taste of chinks smegma far truly worth it for you. 六四天安门事件
literally nothing whatsoever to do with AI stupid fucking chinks stupid fucking arstechnica-worshiping normalfag fucktards It's a CG news anchor on top of a TTS stuffed with articles written by interns, and they say so in the goddamned article, fuck all of you, fuck everything on this gay earth
