Friends who love science fiction works should be familiar with the "uncanny valley" theory, "uncanny valley" theory refers to when the similarity between robots and humans reaches a certain level, human reactions to them will suddenly become extremely negative and disgusting, in recent years, more and more mature AI technology makes everyone feel what this theory is really about.
At the 5th World Internet Conference in 2018, Sogou and Xinhua News Agency jointly released the world's first fully simulated intelligent AI host online, which is through speech synthesis, lip synthesis, expression synthesis and deep learning and other technologies, cloned with the same broadcast ability as real anchors "AI synthetic anchors".
In 2020, the official appearance of AI anchor Xin Xiaowei on the eve of the opening ceremony of the national two sessions also caused a huge sensation, compared with the previous AI anchor, Xin Xiaowei not only imitated human expressions, demeanor, actions, voice for program hosting, news broadcasting, her appearance is more restored to real people at the same time, in the three-dimensional sense, flexibility, plasticity, interactive ability and application space and other aspects have also made a significant leap.
A product manager at Sogou also said that in order to make the new micro more realistic, they spent a lot of energy to understand the hyper-realistic production industry, how to map the action of a real person on the model, and in turn improve the model of the 3D production industry, so that the model is driven more realistically. To this end, from October last year to May this year, Sogou's technical team invested nearly half a year.
For the emergence of AI anchors, many people have fallen into panic, even people who rely on language and mind work can be replaced by AI, is their work also easy to be replaced by robots and AI?
In fact, in the short term, this concern is not valid. AI people are also a high-tech technology established to imitate people's appearance, movements, language, etc., even AI anchors are only relying on computer algorithms to work, and the computing speed and reaction ability are far less than those of humans.
The emergence of AI and robots is based on the convenience of human life and the liberation of human hands, under the existing scientific basis, they are only able to use computer algorithms to simulate human beings, and they cannot exist independently, so there is no need to have too much fear of them