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The artificial intelligence (AI) is already in art, in texts and in many other things, now It is already reaching the television news with the presence of a virtual presenter powered by that technology.
Recently, the Chinese state media People’s Daily has just introduced the newest member of its team of newscasters, Ren Xiaorong, an AI-powered virtual presenter that can supposedly offer news coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without a break.
In a video posted by People’s Daily, a virtual young woman named Ren Xiaorong presented herself to the world as an AI-powered chatbot that it has learned the skills of “thousands of newscasters” and that it can constantly evolve based on viewer feedback.
Beautiful and elegantly dressed Ren certainly seemed like a nice newscaster.and if it weren’t for the synthesized and out-of-sync dubbing, you could hardly tell that it wasn’t a real person.
“Hello, my name is Ren Xiaorong. I am an AI digital presenter who has just joined the People’s Daily”said Ren during his first online speech. “Thousands of newscasters have passed on their professional knowledge to me. For 365 days, 24 hours, I will be reporting throughout the year, twenty-four hours a day, without a break”.
The viewers can, through an app, ask the presenter questions on various topics such as education, epidemic prevention, housing, employment, environmental protection and many others.
She is not the first virtual presenter
Ren Xiaorong is not the first virtual newscaster in China. As early as 2019, Xinhua introduced its first virtual presenter in 2018, followed by a female version a year later, but while everyone expected them to quickly evolve and replace human presenters, that has yet to happen. The South Korean virtual presenter didn’t seem to be doing much better either….
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