These days open the vibrato and video number, everyone is frantically brushing the video of Tsinghua's virtual student Hua Zhibing, in the video, a pure and sweet temperament talented woman, holding a guitar singing, and then with a very shocking title: "Tsinghua's first AI virtual student Hua Zhibing, the first face to sing, netizens directly called amazing."
This video really scares a lot of people, makes many people feel too good, watched and marveled at the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, I feel that I have immediately entered the era of robots.
In the face of the keywords of "Tsinghua University", "artificial intelligence", "virtual students", "can draw and write poetry and create music", most people will not carefully study what it is really, just see that good-looking skin bag, they are completely impressed, thinking that our artificial intelligence technology has developed to the way the movie presents.
And what I want to say is, is it really awesome, or does it look awesome?
This question is important because in the artificial intelligence industry, there has always been a misleading phenomenon in the name of technology.
For example, in 2018, the bullish AI leading enterprise iFLYTEK fell into a similar scandal, the real person's translation was read out with the voice of the machine, wanted to highlight their AI translation is very good, the result was torn by the translators tore the stuffing, of course, iFLYTEK is also a chicken thief, after the fact, immediately came out to analyze the "intelligent translation" does not exist, the chairman has been saying "human-machine coupling", playing is actually a game of edge ball.
With the help of cutting-edge technology to install X, attract media advocacy, and rub the concept of side ball speculation, it is some of the old routines of the Internet industry in the past decade. Remember the accident of Weilai car not long ago, and the problem of automatic driving and assisted driving that caused a storm in the city? It also bears traces of this kind of edge ball publicity.
Let's go back to this pure Tsinghua beauty virtual student.
First of all, this video is real, there is nothing wrong with it, after all, it is a propaganda video, and Tsinghua's team has also analyzed, "the singing voice, human biological characteristics, and human facial images in the video are all generated by artificial intelligence technology", which is very clear.
If you savor this sentence, you will find that there is nothing in it. Sound generation, now the technology has been very popular, a lot of software can be, but this Huazhibing's voice, because it is specially customized, so more delicate and natural; human biological characteristics and human facial images, now there are also many software can do it, but because Huazhibing is customized, so it is more real.
And then what? No more then.
What is her level of creativity? What about her ability to deliver? If she becomes a humanoid robot, what will she look like and feel? We can't see that. We only saw one concept video, the real AI components are "narration, background music, face", the other is the real actor appeared on camera, and then combined with AI post-processing.
However, most of the people who have watched this video stay in her pure appearance, and then inexplicably think that she is very powerful. I even thought that the woman in the video was a robot that could be seen and touched. In fact, no, except for the face, the body may be a student of Tsinghua.
To put it bluntly, this Hua Zhibing is not yet a visible robot, but a set of artificial intelligence systems that specifically bring the image of a girl.
It is essentially a parasitic beast.
What is a parasitic beast, if you have seen the Marvel movie "Venom", you will know that Venom is a parasitic beast, it parasitizes the male protagonist Tom Hardy, making it look complete, but if you pull it off the human body, you will find that it is actually a mutilated product, in some ways particularly powerful, but it is indeed mutilated.
Hua Zhibing is the same, her most cattle place, in fact, can not write poetry, draw and sing, these abilities she is actually very rudimentary. Her best thing about it is her memory, her vast reserves of knowledge, and if necessary, she can fill her mind with a library at any time. But what? It's useless, you have to think about it, it's valuable.
Hua Zhibing was only launched when Tsinghua University opened this year, and it was not a few months, so why did it become popular so quickly? The reason is very simple, she is actually not a small cute new, but an old fritter in the Internet industry.
Hua Zhibing's introduction is very clear: she is made by three partners: Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute leads the development of the ultra-large-scale intelligent model "Wudao 2.0"; Zhipu AI team participates in the development of "Wudao 2.0" as the backbone and mainly develops the platform application ecology; Xiaoice provides the world's leading artificial intelligence complete framework, and is responsible for the development and application of sound and image.
Especially the last Xiaoice company, if you are an old user of WeChat, I believe that a few years ago in WeChat with a robot called Microsoft Xiaoice chat, yes, it is her, a chatbot owned by Microsoft, born in 2014, has been active in the artificial intelligence circle. And this Tsinghua virtual student Hua Zhibing is a customized version of Microsoft's Xiaoice.
What do you mean? Bean paste egg yolk crisp, everyone has eaten it, usually many bakeries have sold. However, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tencent purchased a batch and put it in a beautifully designed environmentally friendly packaging box, and it transformed into a customized mooncake for an Internet giant.
Hua Zhibing is the same, it was originally an artificial intelligence dialogue system under Microsoft, and then now the packaging has become a virtual student of Tsinghua University, Hua Zhibing, which is still beautiful.
Just like that, so far, this parasitic beast named Hua Zhibing, in addition to the good design, I have not seen any amazing technological progress. Of course, Tsinghua's team is estimated to be working very hard, but the artificial intelligence road is really very, very slow, not as fast as everyone thinks.
But what about the media? She had already been blown into the sky, and the more she crossed the xuanhu. Many unknown netizens still think that the girl in the video is a robot that can be seen and touched?
In fact, Huazhibing is also a parasitic beast system that is constantly evolving based on Microsoft's Xiaoice framework and under the leadership of professors from Tsinghua University.
I can understand that most netizens, including the media, hope that "the future has come". But throughout the past few years, there have been too many acts of hype through black technology.
And all of this is actually a concept + an attempt, nothing more.