China's AI news anchors

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Post by alanwong » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 11:37 AM UTC

China's AI news anchors
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Post by sbhn » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC

England created Max Headroom before America’s MTV took it over

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Post by iambateman » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:22 PM UTC

Watching the video, it’s pretty clear that this is an interesting stunt but would be considered unwatchable for any length of time.

I can imagine this working well in a couple years, but today it’s a long way off.

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Post by scj » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

My first thought was towards Max Headroom. My second thought was on the Max Headroom incident.

If it went live, how long before a copy lands in the hands of pranksters?

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Post by lawlessone » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

scj wrote: post #4

My first thought was towards Max Headroom. My second thought was on the Max Headroom incident. If it went live, how long before a copy lands in the hands of pranksters?

Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.

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Post by bananatron » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:37 PM UTC

China's track record with free speech makes the implications of completely bypassing any human 'journalist' kind of scary. I guess it's always been possible, but damn.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

sbhn wrote: post #2

England created Max Headroom before America’s MTV took it over

Though Max Headroom is virtual in the “virtual YouTuber” or “virtual band” sense. ;)

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Post by bananatron » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC

lawlessone wrote: post #5

scj wrote: post #4

My first thought was towards Max Headroom. My second thought was on the Max Headroom incident. If it went live, how long before a copy lands in the hands of pranksters?

Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.

Or hasn't happened...

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Post by otoburb » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

>>The English-speaking anchor, complete with a suit and tie, is modeled on a real-life Xinhua anchor called Zhang Zhao.

I hope that Zhang Zhao is getting a licensing stream for the use of his likeness. William Gibson was really ahead of his time when he popularized "synthetic personality constructs" as a mainstream literary trope[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru

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Post by wufufufu » Fri, Nov 09, 2018, 2:51 PM UTC

Top 10 technologies that sound scary when in an article starting with 'China'.