The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says China's virtual broadcasters are only fake

Not long ago, we reported on China 's artificial intelligence announcer, everyone must have been surprised. Please watch the video about "it" before learning about the harsh truth behind the flashy appearance:

You hear a slightly stiff voice, the broadcaster's lips moving differently, because this is a product created by computers. However, this does not mean that this is an artificial intelligence announcer. According to a reporter for MIT Technology Review magazine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the product is not " smart" at all. This is just "a puppet reading the dialogue" , not a "smart" in it at all.

Sogou Company, the father of virtual broadcasters, put the image algorithm of a real announcer, accompanied by a dialogue to train the machine to create a desired image.

Specifically, this is a software that has learned how to create looks and a voice that looks like a real announcer. Very impressive, but just a very shallow example for "machine learning". According to researchers at MIT, we can call this "artificial intelligence announcer" , but it will be misleading.

In fact, anyone can create such videos, and we have seen it become a dangerous trend called deepfakes .

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According to a reporter from MIT Technology Review, this is just a puppet reading the lines.

This technology will improve future animation, computer skills and game development technology. But hidden here are worrisome points, a computer powerful enough to integrate familiar faces, famous into any human body. This has been going on, when some videos are very indecent, using the face transplant technique just mentioned, still floating on the Internet.

A few months ago, Reporter Technology Review met Sogou CEO Wang Xiaochaun when he gave a speech at Tsinghua University, introducing his new artificial intelligence projects. One of them is the video of a famous movie star who is video calling for viewers.

There is only one thing for sure: the future of artificial intelligence will have a strange appearance and voice, we cannot adapt immediately.