While there is always excitement about the latest advances in AI technology, the impending job crisis brings understandable tension. It has been announced that a news site powered by AI anchors is set to debut in early 2024, and the new channel is causing concern.
The new site is set to shake up the broadcast industry and usher in a fascinating but somewhat troubling advance in artificial intelligence. We've come to rely on AI productivity tools and art generators, but this advancement has the potential to elevate AI technology to more than just an extension of human creativity.
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The AI ​​anchor was announced by media startup Channel 1, which shared a showcase video of the AI ​​cast to X, captioning the post: “Watch the world's highest quality AI footage.” It sounds like a bold claim, but the realism and detail of the AI ​​Reporter is definitely an advance compared to past models, and it exhibits groundbreaking smooth movements (and surprisingly working hands). Masu.
The news site consists of a combination of fully generated AI anchors and digital doubles that are transcribed by various AI text-to-speech models. Although there's an underlying gentle robot-ness to their voices, each model has a unique and surprisingly realistic “personality” thanks to a variety of accents and rhythms. Reporters can also speak in different languages, making it accessible to a huge global audience, unlike traditional media.
The company also plans to use AI technology behind the scenes to filter popular news and identify trending articles. AI has the advantageous ability to retrieve information from multiple sources and translate foreign articles and accounts, optimizing the process of curating news for writers. Accompanying footage can also be synthesized by AI to create visual aids that provide additional context to stories that are not visually documented.
Despite the strong intervention of artificial intelligence, the company assured that a human-led team will continue to oversee the news channel. “Humans are involved in every step of our editorial process,” Channel 1 founder Adam Mossam says in his Deadline interview. To maximize transparency, AI elements are flagged with icons that alert viewers to additional changes and explicitly indicate how they have been enhanced.
The advances in AI technology in recent years are amazing. I think this concept is a bit Orwellian, but Channel 1's mission is definitely a huge leap forward for AI. At such an early stage, it's unclear how this new medium will translate to general audiences, but for now I'm inclined to view this as an exciting prospect that could streamline the industry for the better. .
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