Author | Li Liang
At the end of the third matchday of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won 1 gold and 2 silver. On the fourth day, Gu Ailing won the gold medal in the women's big jump ski final, and the much-anticipated Yu yu yu made his debut at the figure skating short program.
Different from the Summer Olympic Games, a large number of events in the Winter Olympics are held in outdoor mountainous areas, and the schedule arrangement, event holding, and spectator services are closely related to meteorological conditions, and accurate and timely meteorological information is inseparable.
As early as ten days before the opening of the Winter Olympics, on new media platforms such as China Weather WAP Huawei Station and Zhangjiakou Meteorological Public Account, a meteorological anchor Feng Xiaoshu has officially taken up his post.
This anchor Feng Xiaoshu is not a human, but an AI virtual meteorological anchor co-created by the China Meteorological Administration Huafeng Meteorological Media Group and Xiaoice Company, born in the framework of Xiaoice. This is also another scenario where Xiaoice framework virtual human technology unlocked.
Feng Xiaoshu took "China Weather" host Feng Shu as the training goal, relying on the Xiaoice framework digital twin virtual human technology to build. He trained for just a week, behind which he Xiaoice Deep Neural Rendering (XNR) and small sample learning techniques. Even with a small number of samples, the overall naturalness of Feng Xiaoshu's face, expression, and body movements reached a degree very similar to that of a real person.
Trained by the Speech Expert Model, the Mouth Expert Model and the Face Rendering Expert Model, "Feng Xiaoshu" learned the synergistic relationship between Feng Shu's own mouth movements and eye and facial muscles, and finally presented this natural and realistic effect.
Source: Feng Shu Weibo
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.
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. Huafeng Group is also responsible for producing weather forecast programs for Xinhua News Agency, Central People's Radio and other media, providing meteorological services to the public through 25 state-level radio and television media, and providing special meteorological services for major social and economic activities such as the National Day military parade, the launch of the Shenqi rocket, and the Spring Festival.
In the highly anticipated Beijing Winter Olympics, China Weather also shoulders the important task of providing and broadcasting meteorological indices. The addition of AI virtual weather anchor "Feng Xiaoshu" also contributed a share of the power from AI to this "Science and Technology Winter Olympics".
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.
Xiaoice is the initiator and first technology framework for artificial intelligence virtual humans (AI beings), and has hatched tens of millions of AI beings.
In the field of finance and economics, the virtual anchors "N Xiaohei" and "N Xiaobai", jointly created by the Xiaoice framework and the Daily Economic News, are broadcasting live 24 hours a day at the × of 365; in the real estate industry, the virtual employee of Vanke Finance Department, "Cui Xiaopan", won the "Outstanding Newcomer of the Year Award" of Vanke Group with a prepaid receivables/overdue document write-off rate of 91.44%.
Xia Yubing, a painter who graduated from CAFA, was able to continuously and high-quality produce ink paintings, and appeared in the CCTV "Dialogue" column a few years ago, showing a clear and rounded voice of "Passing through the World"; virtual singer Chen Shuiruo learned the national singing method, linked up with Li Yugang dream, jointly interpreted "Huaxia", and Xiaoice framework singers He Chang and Chen Ziyu were invited to enter the world's first AI music creation platform "NetEase Tianyin", which integrates songwriting and singing.
In addition to these star AI beings, there are countless virtual boyfriends and virtual girlfriends born for ordinary people. Xiaoice believes that the future will be a mixed world of virtual humans (AI beings) and humans. All kinds of AI beings will surround people.
Chen Zhan, President of Huafeng Group Innovation Research Institute, said: "Relying on the Xiaoice framework, we will continue to promote the boundaries and possibilities of combining artificial intelligence technology with the meteorological industry, so that the meteorological scientific and technological achievements of the Winter Olympics and their application experience and solutions in the Winter Olympics can play a wider role, and improve the breadth, accuracy and efficiency of meteorological services for users."
Feng Shu, host of "China Weather", 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."
*Header image source: Visual China
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