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<\/div>A New Woman<\/h2>
On Tuesday, China’s state-run news outlet Xinhua<\/em> announced<\/a> the latest addition to its news team: Xin Xiaomeng.<\/p> But Xin never went to journalism school — or any school — because “she” is not a real person. Instead, she’s an artificial intelligence<\/a> created by Xinhua<\/em> and search engine Sogou — making her the world’s first female AI news anchor.<\/p> Xin will make her professional debut during March’s Two Sessions, the name given to a pair of annual meetings featuring China’s legislature and its top political advisory body.<\/p> She won’t be the only AI news anchor covering the event either.<\/p> In November, Xinhua<\/em> and Sogou unveiled<\/a> the first AI news anchors of any gender, a pair of male AIs<\/a> trained to deliver the news in either English or Chinese.<\/p> The same day they unveiled Xin, Xinhua<\/em> and Sogou announced that they’d given these AI anchors the ability to stand and talk simultaneously<\/a>, and they’ll show off that new ability while covering the Two Sessions alongside their female counterpart.<\/p> When Xinhua <\/em>debuted their first AI anchors in November, the news agency claimed<\/a> that each anchor could “work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms, reducing news production costs and improving efficiency.”<\/p> Since then, the anchors have delivered 3,400 news reports while logging 10,000 minutes of screen time, according to Tencent News<\/em><\/a>.<\/p> Clearly, Xinhua<\/em> plans to actually put its AIs to work, and the addition of another anchor to the news team should only serve to increase production.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Chinese State Media’s Latest Innovation Is an AI Female News Anchor<\/a> [Quartz<\/em>]<\/p> More on AI anchors: Meet the World’s First AI News Anchor<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p> The post China Unveils the World’s First Female AI News Anchor<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: A New Woman On Tuesday, China\u2019s state-run news outlet Xinhua announced the latest addition to its news team: Xin Xiaomeng. But Xin never went to journalism school \u2014 or any school\u00a0\u2014 because \u201cshe\u201d is not a real person. Instead, she\u2019s an artificial intelligence created by Xinhua and search engine Sogou \u2014 making her the world\u2019s first female AI news anchor. Continue reading Two Sessions, Three AIs<\/h2>
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