{"id":25528,"date":"2018-11-11T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=25528"},"modified":"2018-11-11T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T16:49:33","slug":"the-worlds-first-ai-news-anchor-says-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/the-worlds-first-ai-news-anchor-says-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC presenter discusses AI in newsrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could Artificial Intelligence lead to news anchors losing their jobs? BBC Radio 4 Presenter, Charles Carroll, certainly thinks it could happen in the future. He says: “Artificial Intelligence could save a great deal of money”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When China\u2019s state-run news agency, Xinhua,<\/i>\u00a0introduced their newest addition to the newsroom – two Artificial Intelligence news anchors, people were surprised. Surprised that this could be a thing of the future.<\/p>\n

\n

Dude \u2014 this is the 1.0 version.<\/p>\n

If this is where we are already, how much longer do we have before we literally cannot tell the difference.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Louie Vuitton Don (@KanyeofOld) November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

True. More like how much longer before they fire every news reporter.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u2654KingDave DuROSIER (@iAm_KingDave) November 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Censored news and non human emotions. (Perfect)<\/p>\n

\u2014 Austin (@inmyhumbleopi) November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n

The first, an English speaking presenter appeared on television screens dressed in a sharp suit, looking like any other anchor, until he opened his mouth. In a robotic voice, he began: \u201cHello, you are watching English news programme, I am AI news anchor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second is a Chinese speaking anchor who introduced himself in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined as the development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

World’s first #AI<\/a> news anchor debuts, jointly developed by Xinhua and Chinese search engine company https:\/\/t.co\/34tyZ4nwrg<\/a>. https:\/\/t.co\/2omcc5K9rB<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/qXn5Z3ZkxL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 China Xinhua News (@XHNews) 8 November 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The AI presenters were created through a collaboration with Chinese search engine, Sogou. They mimic the movements and expressions of their real life counterparts Zhang Zhao and Qui Hao, who the AI anchors are modelled on. <\/span><\/p>\n

See also: <\/strong>Could a Black Mirror dystopian world actually become our future? <\/a><\/p>\n

Xinhua<\/span><\/i> have said the virtual anchors can work 24 hours a day from any location and aim to reduce production costs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voice of London spoke to BBC Radio 4 news presenter, Charles Carroll, about his thoughts on AI in newsrooms:<\/p>\n

[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5910GjRz8Q]<\/p>\n


\nThis is a big step for China who have plans to turn China into an AI world leader by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Words: Daisy Newman | Subbing: Taylor Paatalo<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could Artificial Intelligence lead to news anchors losing their jobs? BBC Radio 4 Presenter, Charles Carroll, certainly thinks it could happen in the future. He says: “Artificial Intelligence could save a great deal of money”….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":25534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,82,123],"tags":[573,3681,6113,6983],"class_list":["post-25528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-lifestyle","tag-technology","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}