China's first female AI anchor has made her professional debut on Sunday as the country's state-run press agency builds its growing team of virtual presenters.

官方媒体组建日益壮大的虚拟主播团队，首位AI女主播于周日首次亮相。

The lifelike robotic news anchor, named 'in iaomeng', was tasked to present a story about delegates arriving in Beiing to attend the country's annual legislative session

这位栩栩如生的机器人新闻主播名叫“新小萌”，被安排报道抵达北京参加全国人大会议的代表们的情况。

Modelled after the agency's flesh-and-blood journalist Qu Meng, the newsreader powered by artificial intelligence was jointly developed by inhua and search engine company Sogou.com and can 'read texts as naturally as a professional anchor'.

以新华社真人记者屈萌为原型，这位由人工智能驱动的新闻播报员由新华社和搜狗搜索引擎公司联合开发，可以“像专业主播一样自然地播报”。

'All delegates attending the meeting have arrived in Beiing. All preparations for the conference are in place,' the anchor, sporting a short haircut and pink blouse, read in a somewhat robotic voice.

“所有与会代表都已抵达北京。会议准备就绪。”这位留着短发，穿着粉色上衣的主播以一种机械式的声音播报。

'The second session of the 13th National People's Congress will kick off in Beiing on March 5,' she ended the one-minute report by saying.

在时长一分钟的报告结尾，她说到：“13届全国人大二次会议将于3月5日在北京召开。”

in iaomeng joins the digital doppelgangers of English-language anchor Zhang Zhao and his Chinese-language counterpart Qiu Hao, who were unveiled in November during the 2018 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.

新小萌加入了以英语节目主持人张昭和中文节目主持人邱浩为原型的AI主播队伍，这两位AI主播于去年11月在浙江省乌镇举行的2018年世界互联网大会上亮相。

An AI system has been used to synthesise the presenters' voices, lip movements and expressions based on those of real presenters.

人工智能系统已经被用来合成真人主播的声音，嘴唇动作和表情。

The digital anchors offer certain advantages over humans, inhua previously said. They are available to work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms.

新华社之前报道过，AI主播比真人主播有一定的优势。他们可以在其官方网站和各种社交媒体平台上24小时工作。

This can reduce news production costs and improve efficiency during breaking news reports, it added.

这可以降低新闻制作成本，提高突发新闻报道的效率。

inhua said that its 'new employees' have taken to their roles with enthusiasm and have published more than 3,400 reports totaling over 10,000 minutes in length since November.

新华社称，自去年11月以来，其“新成员”已经积极投入工作，共播报了3,400多篇报道，总时长超过1万分钟。

China has become one of the leading global hubs for AI development in recent years.

近年来，已成为全球人工智能发展的主要中心之一。

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译文来源：三泰虎 http://www.santaihu.com/47154.html    译者：Jessica.Wu

外文：https://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Sommyvals, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, 19 hours ago

Male and female AI.. They can now start reproducing so they can take over the world

有了AI男性和AI女性，现在它们可以开始繁殖，这样就可以统治世界了。

BarbieWorld1992, Turks and Caicos Islands, Canada, 20 hours ago

Creepy. I think they already have had this technology for a long time

毛骨悚然。他们应该早就已经有这项技术了。

FinBiz, GoodPlace, United States, 20 hours ago

She looks and sounds real and she'll never age or get sick either. Scary.

看起来像真人，听起来也像真人，而且她永远不会变老，也不会生病。太可怕了。

tkjh, HKSAR, China, 20 hours ago

The next Oscar host.

下一位奥斯卡主持人。

jimbo6478, Manchester, United Kingdom, 22 hours ago

That's scarily life like

太逼真了

Rikki_Dee, Macon, United States, 23 hours ago

I liked that computer produced news reader Ananova (I got the mouse pad with her image) better. Too bad she's not around anymore.

我更喜欢安娜诺娃(全球第一位虚拟广播主持人)。我的鼠标垫上有她的照片

Truth In Rock, Rock City, United States, 1 day ago

Another step closer To the street scenes of the movie Bladerunner.

离电影《银翼杀手》的街头场景又近了一步。

DontYouEven, Ireland, Ireland, 1 day ago

can they replace piers morgan?

他们能取代皮尔斯·摩根吗?

Harry Lui, Mesa, United States, 1 day ago

Fake AI footage coming soon.

很快就会出现AI合成的假视频。

ianfineartist, Own World, Hong Kong, 1 day ago

she looks like a real person

她看起来像一个真人

Jose Pronto, Miami, United States, 1 day ago

We have them here too. They are equally mindless parrots. We call them liberal anchors.

我们这里也有，同样都是无需动脑的鹦鹉。

flycaster, Boston, United States, 1 day ago

probably less biased than the real thing. this kind of anchor should replace every anchor in the US.

可能没有真人主播那么有偏见。应该用AI主播取代美国的所有主播。

toadlick, Columbia, United States, 1 day ago

Creepy.

令人毛骨悚然。

ImeanwhatIsay, Shangri-la, United States, 1 day ago

Now all the beautiful anchors lose their jobs

现在所有的真人主播都将失业。

helmethead, SW Florida, United States, 1 day ago

Too late. The U.S. has already pioneered the use of robots who can talk. But, we call them politicians.

迟了一步。美国已经率先使用会说话的机器人，我们称他们为政客。

Celeb Judge, Magistrates Court, United Kingdom, 1 day ago

Someone at ITV please give this robot Piers Morgan's job

让这位主播取代ITV(英国独立电视台)的皮尔斯·摩根。

Independent Miss, West Coast, United States, 1 day ago

Wait. Although it may be an AI presenter.....there is a voice over actor talking in the editing booth for it. Clearly not perfected.

虽然是人工智能主播，但也要有人在剪辑室给它配音。显然还不完善

lindsaywhit, Big Rapids, United States, 1 day ago

Because... they're aren't enough actual people in China to do the job for a reasonable wage?

难道人手不够用了吗？

vivi101, Somewhereinthewold, United States, 1 day ago

The begng of the end of humanity

人类终结的开始

psu319, Ville, United States, 1 day ago

Well since a news anchor only reads the news off a teleprompter I can see TV affiliates laying off their expensive on air staff and going AI. With instant access to news on my smart phone from anywhere I really don't watch the news anymore. I can't even remember the last time I purchases a news paper.

电视台正在裁减真人主播，转而使用AI主播。

通过智能手机能随时随地获取新闻，我不再看报纸了。上次买报纸是什么时候，我都不记得了

andrewdiceclay, everywhere, United States, 1 day ago

Eventually, all TV news channels will replace humans with AI like this and give them either a right or left leaning attitude to play to their viewership.

以后所有的电视新闻频道都将用AI主播来取代人类

Nylon12, maplewood, United States, 1 day ago

Chinese Co unists finally found something they can COMPLETELY control without paying salary, worrying about miscues,or defecting.

终于找到了他们可以完全控制的东西，不用付工资，不用担心出错

Donald, Toronto, Canada, 1 day ago

there is actually more likelyhood they will lose control of the AI ...the humans are the ones under COMPLETE control.

他们更有可能失去对人工智能的控制……人类将被完全控制。

General Chaos, Warville, 1 day ago

The BBC should follow suit... Think of all the money they could save

BBC应该效仿……想想看，能省下多少钱。