Reporting by XinZhiyuan
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【New Zhiyuan Guide】The Beijing Winter Olympics officially opened today! Since a large number of events need to be held outdoors, the weather conditions are naturally crucial. The mention of the meteorological announcer of this Winter Olympic Games is really a bit unusual.
The world-renowned 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open today!
The "Winter Olympics of Science and Technology" will become a highlight of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and new technologies such as venue construction, infrastructure, green environmental protection, smart services, broadcasting technology, and artificial intelligence will be fully demonstrated and applied.
Inside the stadium, the players will interpret the Olympic spirit with hard work and sweat, while outside the stadium, urban operation, medical and health, transportation, meteorology and other services are fully guaranteeing the smooth hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Different from the Summer Olympic Games, a large number of events of the Winter Olympics are held in outdoor mountainous areas, and their schedule arrangements, event holdings, and spectator services are closely related to meteorological conditions, and accurate and timely meteorological information is inseparable.
As early as ten days ago, on new media platforms such as China Weather WAP Huawei Station and Zhangjiakou Meteorological Public Account, a meteorological service anchor "Feng Xiaoshu" has officially taken up his post, broadcasting the Winter Olympic Meteorological Index in real time for participants and audiences in various venues, and contributing to the service guarantee of the Winter Olympic Games.
What is less known is that the dedicated anchor "Feng Xiaoshu" is not a human, but an AI meteorological service virtual person jointly created by the China Meteorological Administration Huafeng Meteorological Media Group and Xiaoice Company and born in the framework of Xiaoice.
The prototype of "Feng Xiaoshu" is Feng Shu, the host of "China Weather", and also the host familiar to the audience of the "Weather Forecast" program on tv. The addition of "Feng Xiaoshu" also contributed a force from AI to this "Science and Technology Winter Olympics".
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Feng Xiaoshu will continue to broadcast the "Winter Olympics Public Meteorological Index", which involves the human body feelings and health tips for outdoor spectators, including meteorological indicators such as the cold and cold index, dressing index, cold index, frostbite index, sunscreen index, and goggles index, so as to timely transmit the refined meteorological index service information of outdoor venues for the spectators and provide a reference basis for the public's health and safety to watch the games.
This is also another new scene opened up by the virtual person in the Xiaoice framework.
Combined with Xiaoice deep neural network rendering (XNR) and small sample learning technology, the overall naturalness of "Feng Xiaoshu", including face, expression, and body movements, has been improved to a degree that is difficult to distinguish from real people, and the training cycle is only one week.
It is worth mentioning that under the training of the speech expert model, the mouth expert model and the face rendering expert model, "Feng Xiaoshu" accurately learned the synergistic relationship between Feng Shu's own mouth movements, eye and facial muscles, and finally presented this natural and realistic effect.
Behind thousands of AI virtual people, there is the ubiquitous "she"
Xiaoice is the initiator and forerunner of artificial intelligence virtual humans (AI beings).
At present, the Xiaoice framework has incubated tens of millions of AI beings: from Xia Yubing, who was rated as the "ceiling of virtual people", to Chen Shuiruo, who linked up with Li Yugang's dream, to the daily economic news virtual anchors N Xiaohei and N Xiaobai, who broadcast live 24 hours a day for 7 ×, to Cui Xiaopan, winner of Vanke Group's 2021 Outstanding Newcomer Award, and tens of millions of virtual boyfriends and virtual girlfriends are silently accompanying ordinary users.
As an enterprise directly under the China Meteorological Administration and a leading enterprise of state-owned meteorological services, Huafeng Meteorological Media Group is an important part of China's meteorological undertakings, and its responsible central media "Weather Forecast" program and China Weather Network undertake important functions of national public meteorological services.
In the highly anticipated Beijing Winter Olympics, China Weather also shoulders the important task of providing and broadcasting meteorological indices.
Chen Zhan, President of Huafeng Group Innovation Research Institute, said: "Relying on the Xiaoice framework, we will continue to promote the application of artificial intelligence technology in the meteorological industry to improve the breadth, accuracy and efficiency of meteorological services for users. ”
Feng Shu himself, who is the prototype of "Feng Xiaoshu", also said: "I believe that the future world must be a world where artificial intelligence and human beings coexist, and we should embrace technology with an open mind to create a better life together." I hope that Feng Xiaoshu will work hard during the Winter Olympics and during the Winter Olympics and not live up to everyone's expectations."
In the future, "China Weather" and Xiaoice companies will continue to cooperate, each giving full play to the advantages of the full ecosystem of meteorological services and the complete framework of artificial intelligence, jointly exploring the application practice of cutting-edge AI technologies in the field of meteorology, and bringing more efficient and accurate meteorological services to hundreds of millions of users.