Watch the world's first AI news anchor deliver a report

[Jamie McKane]

Watch the world's first AI news anchor deliver a report

China's state-run press agency, Xinhua, has launched its new AI news anchors.

These anchors are digital composites which read the news in a synthetic voice and are recreated from footage of real human anchors.

 

[konfab]

NPCs for the NPCs.

 

[Beyond.Celsus]

So it's actually just a fancy talkback and not really AI?

 

[RedViking]

Click Bait. Nothing AI about it. Unless it does its own research and editing.

 

[Temujin]

Old news... msm being using it for years

 

[graybeard]

AI my arse.

Enough with the ^$#@&%! clickbait!

 

[Totempole]

So it's actually just a fancy talkback and not really AI?

Either way, sounds pretty awful. I'd stop watching news, and just continue to read it online if they replaced actual news anchors for that.

 

[Ockie]

Bitch please. The Google Assistent chick sounds 100 times môre natural than this 2011 talk back software. Tsek!

 

[Nobody Important]

It is the land of counterfeits after all, why so surprised?

 

[Sapphiron]

I know of YouTube channels with better talkbacks

 

[saor]

Click Bait. Nothing AI about it. Unless it does its own research and editing.

Kak lazy copy-posting headlines from another news source without even reading the content. A more interesting article that could've extended from this is the prevalence of the word AI in tech circles & how it's often conflated with traditional computation.

 

[NeoAcheron]

Haha! It called Jack Ma, "Jack Massachusetts". Stupid text to speech, with a fancy face. Nothing AI about it.

 

[kianm]

Can it detect fake news?