At present, the hottest person on the Internet is a virtual digital person in addition to the ice pier.
How hot are virtual digital people? Looking at the feedback from the capital markets has given the answer. As of the morning of February 16, the index of the virtual digital human concept sector reported 891.386 points, up 2%, with a turnover of 4.706 billion yuan and a turnover rate of 2.09%.
At this Winter Olympics, virtual people have also become an element of frequent appearances.
Virtual digital people such as Meet Gu, a digital Homo sapiens based on sports star Gu Ailing, 3D virtual bingbing, AI virtual weather anchor "Feng Xiaoshu", and AI sign language anchor "XiaoSi" have already played a more practical role in the broadcast of the program.
Meet Gu appeared in the Migu studio to interact with the host; the sweet-looking and affinity AI sign language anchor "Xiaosi" provided professional and accurate sign language commentary for the audience; the overall naturalness of its face, expression and body movements was almost the same as that of the real person, and the virtual weather anchor "Feng Xiaoshu" was also handy in explaining the weather program.
It is not difficult to find from the application of virtual digital people that with the gradual maturity of technology and application, the field of virtual digital people is approaching our lives.
So, when more and more virtual digital people appear, what will it bring to our lives?
In fact, virtual digital people do not exist in the real world. They are created in the digital world by computer graphics, graphic rendering, motion capture, deep learning, speech synthesis and other high-tech means. They have a combination of multiple human characteristics, such as physical characteristics, human performance ability, and human interaction ability.
Now, many well-known Internet and technology giants have been involved in the field of virtual digital people.
These virtual digital people are also mainly divided into two categories: service-oriented virtual digital people and identity virtual digital people.
Service-oriented virtual digital people are mainly used to replace real people for content generation such as broadcasting, and can perform simple Q&A interactions.
AI virtual weather anchor "Feng Xiaoshu", AI sign language anchor "Xiaosi" and Cui Xiaopan, Vanke's first virtual person employee who won the 2021 Vanke Best Newcomer Award at the end of last year, are all service-oriented virtual digital people.
The digital Homo sapiens Meet Gu, based on sports star Gu Ailing, the 3D virtual bingbing based on Wang Bingbing, as well as the virtual singers from Hatsune Mirai and Luo Tianyi, and Liu Yexi, who "debuted" at the end of October last year, are all identity virtual digital people.
According to McKinsey's forecast, by 2030, at least 118 million people in China will be replaced by artificial intelligence or robots. There are also research data that show that the current virtual digital human market size has exceeded 200 billion yuan. Identity-based virtual people will dominate in the future development.
It is undeniable that these "virtual digital people" with perfect appearance, but also stronger functionality and serviceability do a lot better than real people in some areas.
For example, the sweet-looking AI sign language anchor "XiaoSi" is quite professional and accurate in sign language commentary. It is said that the follow-up "Xiaosi" will also be reported all year round for the hearing impaired group.
If nothing else, only the "24 hours a day" work efficiency, live anchors can not compare. There is also "Cui Xiaopan", The first virtual digital employee of Vanke, who is mainly responsible for the collection of accounts receivable, and with the blessing of the algorithm, "she" can be more efficient than humans for overdue reminders. Under "her" work, the write-off rate of overdue bills due in advance reached 91.44%.
And virtual idols such as Hatsune Mirai and Luo Tianyi, who have perfect human design and full value, can not only sing and dance, all year round, but also ensure that the human design will never collapse. This is also difficult for real idols to do.
As a result, after the emergence of more and more virtual digital people in today's future, our lives will obviously become more convenient. But some jobs may be really hard to find.
It is certainly inevitable that some standardized, repetitive work will be "snatched" by service-oriented virtual digital people. The entertainment industry and the anchor industry may also become the main areas of identity-based virtual digital people to "grab jobs".
In this way, we must appreciate the perfect human design and the virtual digital person with full value, and also maintain the competitiveness of the workplace, so as not to lose the job bowl in the "invasion" of the virtual person.
In xiaobian's view, in fact, service-oriented virtual digital people are not able to work completely independently, nor can they 100% replace human employees to work. The jobs that can be replaced by service-oriented virtual digital people are mostly highly regular, repetitive, and large business transactions. The use of robots to handle these tasks is obviously more efficient and reduces the probability of error.
In the future, our career structure of working with virtual digital people is probably an inevitable trend in digital transformation.
Then, in order not to be "robbed of the job" by service-oriented virtual digital people in the future, we human workers need to constantly update our knowledge reserves, professional skills and innovative thinking ability.
Or specialize in the industry and become an expert in a certain field. Or find another way to expand their career direction and skill upgrading direction into areas that virtual digital people can't do.
Only when we human workers have our own core competitiveness can we not be replaced by virtual digital people.