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China's State news outlet Xinhua, has debuted "AI anchors"
The company created these "AI anchors" from digital composites of human anchors and gave them synthesized voices to deliver the news. Other than those details, the agency has kept the technology used in bringing this anchorman to life under wraps.
Checking out the animation, the speech is surprisingly good and far better than the terrible robo voices on some video channels. The British accented English speaking video anchor proudly claims
I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted
And, this being China, there's the capitalism angle:
One of the best parts of having an AI anchor? "He" doesn't sleep, said the press agency.
"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," the Xinhua media team noted.
An interesting advantage in the land of 1.4 billion people.
We'll just have to see how these guys compare with good ol' Max
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 09 2019, @11:57AM
I AM MOTHER FUCKING SERIOUS.
Consider my recent complaints of YouTube SuperCookieing Tor Browser: use Tor to listen to your favorite rock videos without getting profiled. In no time at all, not only will you get sick to death of the music you once loved, you'll find that same music playing _relentlessly_ wherever you go online even when you do not use Tor.
My own solution to that is to avoid starting my YouTube Listening - LOL: "Listening" at great computational expense! - to avoid starting YouTube on the same track twice. Further, when presented with a choice of two or more videos to listen to, I never ever ever listen to one I've listened to before.
Recall as well my having mentioned that I am absolutely serious I have FIVE THOUSAND FACEBOOK FRIEND. While that was at first a huge pain in the ass as anyone would expect, it was not long at all before I puzzled over where all my friends had gone!
Zuck Optimized My Mother Fucking Paperclips.
My eventual solution was to tag hundreds of my Friends from just one post; as that caused some of them dismay at my apparent spamming, I now instead tag different selections of perhaps fifty friends with each of my posts.
For me personally as a writer, to have five thousand facebook friends as well as just shy of one thousand twitter followers is _huge_, and leads to my confidence that my Self-Published And Therefore Not Notable Enough For Wikipedia Guacamole Road [guacamoleroad.com] will be a New York Times Bestseller.
And Yes:
I Am Absolutely Serious.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]