Hindustan Surkhiyan Desk: With a robotic voice and awkward delivery, Xinhua, China’s state-run press agency, unveiled its new “AI anchors” in order to deliver headlines 24 hours a day. This “artificial intelligence news anchor” which is a lifelike digitised reporter, can read out text by mimicking a real human presenter. The new agency claims that the presenter “can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor”.
According to reports from South China Morning Post, Xinhua said “AI anchors have officially become members of the Xinhua News Agency reporting team.
They will work with other anchors to bring you authoritative, timely and accurate news information in both Chinese and English,”
Xinhua’s AI anchor has been modelled on Zhang Zhao, a human Xinhua presenter and AI claim that “I will work tirelessly to keep you informed as texts will be typed into my system uninterrupted.”
In order to watch the AI new presenter, the user will have to access Xinhua’s internet and mobile platforms. The new agency claims that their achievement is “breakthrough in the field of global AI synthesis.”
