The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented crisis in journalism that could decimate media organisations around the world.
The future of journalism – and its survival – could lie in artificial intelligence (AI). AI refers “to intelligent machines that learn from experience and perform tasks like humans”, according to Francesco Marconi, a professor of journalism at Columbia University in New York who has just published a book on the subject: Newsmakers, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Read More
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China’s State News Agency Introduces New Artificial Intelligence Anchor
Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, has released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) 3D news anchor. The AI anchor joins a list of growing virtual presenters that are being developed by the agency.
The AI news anchor is named Xin Xiaowei, and it is modeled after Zhao Wanwei, who is one of the agency’s human news presenters.
According to the search engine Sogou, who co-developed the technology, the AI anchor utilizes “multi-modal recognition and synthesis, facial recognition and animation and transfer learning.” Read More
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