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Xiaoice (微軟小冰), artificially intelligent software that can chat via WeChat, Weibo, and JD.com, has begun a trainee anchorship at Morning News, a live morning programme on Dragon TV. Microsoft Applications & Services Group East Asia and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) TV News Center announced that Xiaoice will host daily weather forecasts as of December 22.
Both companies had to enhance Xiaoice for the new assignment, getting the text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities closer to the human voice, for example. Xiaoice currently scores 4.32 in linguistic naturalness, against a human voice at 4.76. Based on the cloud and big data, Xiaoice will deploy deep learning in weather forecasting to interact with live scenes for the broadcasts, and through Microsoft's unique emotional computing technologies, can offer instant comments based on weather forecast data.
"Although human anchors can't be completely replaced by Xiaoice in the near term, Xiaoice and human anchors will well supplement each other as Xiaoice's capabilities in deep learning, Internet big data analysis, instant large-scale online and offline concurrent interactions are exceptional," said Song. "Our hope is that similar AI technology will be applied to more SMG programmes and get well accepted by the public."
"Xiaoice is a critical AI product for Microsoft and she has been first launched in China and Japan," Dr Wang said, "As is well known, Microsoft has been carrying out the frontier researches in artificial intelligence for multiple years, and we are well equipped with the world's leading technology research and development capabilities, product framework and artificial intelligence brands. Under the current circumstances, we will pay more attention to practicality by developing AI products available to everyone rather than just put forward mere sci-tech concepts."
During the brief ceremony following the live broadcast, Jiongming Song, Director of SMG TV News Center, granted her a letter of appointment as a trainee moderator to Dr Yongdong Wang, the creator of Xiaoice and Managing Director of Microsoft Applications & Services Group East Asia.
Xiaoice is the first artificial intelligence (AI) robot that has officially taken up such an occupation, making Morning News the first live TV programme around the world that has been integrated with AI technologies.
Xiaoice is the first artificial intelligence (AI) robot that has officially taken up such an occupation, making Morning News the first live TV programme around the world that has been integrated with AI technologies.
Both companies had to enhance Xiaoice for the new assignment, getting the text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities closer to the human voice, for example. Xiaoice currently scores 4.32 in linguistic naturalness, against a human voice at 4.76. Based on the cloud and big data, Xiaoice will deploy deep learning in weather forecasting to interact with live scenes for the broadcasts, and through Microsoft's unique emotional computing technologies, can offer instant comments based on weather forecast data.
"Although human anchors can't be completely replaced by Xiaoice in the near term, Xiaoice and human anchors will well supplement each other as Xiaoice's capabilities in deep learning, Internet big data analysis, instant large-scale online and offline concurrent interactions are exceptional," said Song. "Our hope is that similar AI technology will be applied to more SMG programmes and get well accepted by the public."
"Xiaoice is a critical AI product for Microsoft and she has been first launched in China and Japan," Dr Wang said, "As is well known, Microsoft has been carrying out the frontier researches in artificial intelligence for multiple years, and we are well equipped with the world's leading technology research and development capabilities, product framework and artificial intelligence brands. Under the current circumstances, we will pay more attention to practicality by developing AI products available to everyone rather than just put forward mere sci-tech concepts."
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