Xiaoice released the digital twin virtual human technology quietly launched for 70 days and no one found out that it was not a real person

Recently, Xiaoice announced a new digital twin virtual person technology, compared with other technologies, the Xiaoice framework not only improves the overall naturalness of virtual people to a degree that is difficult to distinguish from real people, but also realizes the unmanned operation of the whole process of video acquisition, editing and broadcasting for the first time, becoming the world's first 7x24-hour UNinterrupted AI video live broadcast product.

Before the official announcement, the show had been quietly trial running for 70 days. Because the performance of the virtual anchor is close to the level of real people, many viewers have always thought that the program is recorded by a real person. Xiaoice deep neural network rendering (XNR) technology, which greatly improves the overall naturalness including faces, expressions, body movements, etc. Through the Xiaoice framework small sample learning technology, the training cycle of virtual people has been shortened from the past few months to one week, solving the problem of long cycle and high cost of virtual people in one fell swoop, and is expected to open a new era of popularization of virtual people in various scenarios.

According to the Wisdom Bud Database, as of now, Microsoft (Xiaoice parent company) has a total of 1430 patents in the field of directly related to virtual display. According to the company's current patent applications, there have been large patent applications in this field since 2011, with a total of 101 patents applied in the year, and more than 100 patent applications every year since then, but less than 100 patent applications in recent years.