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Xinhua State News Agency is not so long ago tested in its audience innovative technology, similar to something from a science fiction movie or even a dystopian novel demonstrating the decline of human culture amid the development of high technology.
Many Chinese who have watched recent news releases do not even suspected that the new leader is not at all what it seems at first sight. However, more attentive viewers immediately noticed that the speaker’s lips move somehow strangely and unnaturally. And he does not stop during a conversation to gain air in chest, as if not breathing at all. And its intonation, to put it mildly, was not too professional …
We have been told for several decades that artificial intelligence someday will certainly begin to take away from people work. But who would have thought that TV presenters would be alone their first intellectuals to be replaced “robots.” Yes, this is not a joke: the man in the video below is by no means a living person, but a computer algorithm, programmed to voice the latest news China.
The latest replenishment in the ranks of Xinhua announcers looks, by The view of many Web users is frighteningly realistic. Artificial intelligence not only reads the news, but also blinks, nods his head, and raises his eyebrows. But the most valuable the quality of a virtual presenter is his ability to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Moreover, a “robot” can simultaneously broadcast on many channels and websites, covering different events at the same time.
Chinese AI experts convinced innovation will significantly reduce the cost of television companies on maintenance announcers. Technology will evolve rapidly and someday the virtual leader will become indistinguishable from the present. He can “breathe”, gesticulate, speak with human intonation and even stammering sometimes to create a feeling in the viewer the maximum reality of the speaker on the other side of the screen.
However, while such an innovation is controversial reviews. A lot of viewers said that the hologram looks quite similar to a living man, but her behavior and speech are still too different from human. In psychology, this phenomenon called the “sinister valley” effect. If a certain object or some creatures are like humans, but they’re not completely behaving like a living individual, it subconsciously causes people persistent rejection.
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