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> "AI news anchors" They read from a script, poorly. The video of the anchor is generated using ML, but there is no "intelligence" here, not even artificial. It's good propaganda for China, but not much more right now.
The idea of a virtual anchor was pioneered >10 years ago by a group at the Northwestern CS Department including Kris Hammond. The project was called "News at Seven." This video shows the later iterations of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3MRkFYM9Q4 IIRC the early version around 2005 or 2006 used the Half Life 2 engine, so you would have Alyx Vance reading the news with a gun strapped to her belt. At the time I…
Where it fails is the "banter" Actually, where it fails is breaking news. Former newsman here, too. And I remember staying on the air for 12, 24, 36 hours or more with no commercials during breaking news (hurricanes, flooding, etc...), and it's not something any AI will be up to in our lifetimes.
What could happen in these cases is there is some sort of "live desk" staffed by someone from the reporting staff when the need arises. Or, rethink the way breaking news is covered altogether ... does it really need a handoff back to an anchor?
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I'm not understanding the relevance here, could you explain?
I already did? OP said they placenta eating is a thing in China, and > I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing [everywhere], period, and I guess that would describe many people so I shared my, uhh, information, instead of just letting that stereotype kinda linger.
As far as it being a thing.. I'm pretty sure historically it's a really big thing. Protein is expensive for subsistence farmers. Too bad OP lost their lunch over it
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Not sure if they are using state-of-the-art TTS. This one [1] sounds a bit more natural. [1] https://neospeech.com/
Still sounds stilted. Try Google's: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ ( https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167200/google-ai-speech... )
It does not have a lot of obvious artifacts that plagued older TTSes, but it actually is remarkably hard to understand.
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Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.
Once general-purpose GPUs get 100x faster (by 2025?), they'll get classified as weapons and one would need a strictly regulated license to do Deep Learning on them, with computations logged/snapshotted onto some governmental server. Gamers will be forced to stream from cloud.
If you have that one, then no regulated license will be necessary.
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I already did? OP said they placenta eating is a thing in China, and > I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing [everywhere], period, and I guess that would describe many people so I shared my, uhh, information, instead of just letting that stereotype kinda linger.
I didn't see OPs original rant, it's been flagged. I'm assuming there was something in there about how awful Chinese people are because placenta? As far as it being a thing.. I'm pretty sure historically it's a really big thing. Protein is expensive for subsistence farmers. Too bad OP lost their lunch over it
Exactly that.
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I'm not confident that's an issue. The press usually takes the party line anyway. In any case where the press feels compelled to not take the party line (it's happened now and then), they've spoken out. I think if the press felt it necessary, they could do a "special" presentation when they feel necessary. Honestly, I don't see a lot of difference between them and the way Sean Hannity blatantly takes the Trump line.…
It would be very hard for anyone to watch most of Fox News and not see it as some form of state-controlled media in this administration. I guess my brain immediately goes to the situation you describe with little/no human oversight. If the only layer of human oversight that does exist values control over truth, this is just one more layer of human intervention removed.
As an exercise in objective labeling - given Glenn Greenwald's reporting on the communications and friendships between Clinton staff and press outlets [1] - would all those those news outlets and non-pundit journalists immediately be considered state-controlled media had she been elected? I do not think so either.
[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/10/09/exclusive-new-email-leak...
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Where it fails is the "banter" Actually, where it fails is breaking news. Former newsman here, too. And I remember staying on the air for 12, 24, 36 hours or more with no commercials during breaking news (hurricanes, flooding, etc...), and it's not something any AI will be up to in our lifetimes.
That's covered by the ad hoc interviews, which may be for breaking news or the live shot from a pending hurricane zone or something more mundane like a reporter outside the courtroom recapping a verdict from earlier in the day. What could happen in these cases is there is some sort of "live desk" staffed by someone from the reporting staff when the need arises. Or, rethink the way breaking news is covered altogether…
Yes. While the anchor reads on-air, there are dozens of people behind the scenes doing other things. Some journalistic, some technical. All necessary and frenzied.
This isn't really the right medium to describe it all, though. During a serious news event, it can be quite the madhouse. I've never seen a Hollywood film that really captured it.