new technology continues to transform our lives and one of the most innovative technology
may be arguably artificial intelligence and it may also be changing the field of journalism
i have a chance to be part of it myself the making of
a.i anchor jennifer it's our um's news features this week
as usual and that's newscenter thank you for watching everyone i'm moon gangnam in seoul
wherever you are in the world stay safe and stay strong we'll get through this take care call young
jennifer moon principal anchor and managing editor at arirang news my respected senior colleague
is based in seoul south korea but recent visitors to las vegas might have spotted her twin amid the
glitz and glamour of the entertainment capital of the world her twin is busy at work at the
consumer electronics show artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics at this year's ces
and eye-catching innovations delight tech fans both young and old samsung's ai avatar a personal
assistant slash digital housekeeper orders pizza for its master and does the house chores and
looking like a real person beyond imagination's humanoid even place rock paper scissors
yet the center of the attention covered by a host of news outlets is a.i anchor
jennifer the a.i version of adidas tv's very own moon it is very nice to have you here
actually if i went to like the anchor station tv station i would be able to see her give
him the news well on tv you'll be able to see her adiron tv the korea-based global
network broadcast to more than 100 countries teamed up with south korean firm deep brain ai
winner of this year's ces innovation award for real-time video and voice synthesis technology
together they created the one-of-a-kind ai anchor jennifer moon unveiled for the very first time at
ces 2022 but the journey behind the making of ai anchor jennifer was hardly an easy one well
obviously it's my first time testing out this artificial intelligence human so i'm a little
nervous i don't know what to expect but i'm going to find out in many ways the development of a.i
jennifer is similar to cooking a dish first the ingredients are selected and gathered before the
cooking starts kanyon has over 5 000 sentences to read from the newscast which will later be used to
train ai anchor jennifer of course for kanyon it's completely different from the actual anchoring
foreign
i'm very restricted on my movements so for instance i shouldn't be moving my hands too much
or i shouldn't move my head too much and also i can't add lip at all
and as you know i'm i'm a big ad libber during my newscast and i i move around a lot
i'm a very free news anchor if you all so it's a little difficult for me to stick to the script
word for word and to really stay absolutely still during the entire however many hours of filming
the deep learning ai resembles the characteristics of the person who we film konyang has the
characteristics that are within the ideal range as a model so i think the result will turn out well
days of full day filming is demanding physically and psychologically tens of thousands of lines of
new scripts in english for the next three days and in the latter half of my filming which is probably
the fifth or sixth day we'll be filming um the news in korean and so um and then they'll make an
ai version of me which will be a bilingual anchor i suppose i forgot something delays are caused by
the tiniest details like small earrings that need to be exactly the same as previous shoots
feel terrible about everything i feel bad that i'm losing my voice
i feel bad that i forgot my earrings i feel bad that i look tired
i just feel bad about everything
very different from what i'm doing the news not only does konyon film tens of thousands
of new sentences in english but also in the korean language as a.i jennifer is designed
to present the news like the bilingual that konyong is no i thought it was just
a couple korean words in in english articles but basically what i'm doing is reading out korean
news article that would be one for korean korean news anchors so it's very challenging and
it's day six is it of filming so i'm i'm losing my voice as well
so it is very challenging but at the same time the project itself is exciting so yeah i'm getting
there filming is just half the work done however once kanyong and the production team are done
the data pre-processing team get to work first separate our audio from the video footage and
sort them out so that ai jennifer can better learn and perfectly mimic the genuine jennifer
what we regard as highly important are the quality of the audio and the accuracy of the text we go
over all the sentences to minimize errors and make a high quality learning material for the ai
konyong's tone speed and voice were very professional and stable
so we didn't have to revise much in extracting the best quality audio
when the pre-processing is finished the sorted data is reintegrated with the video
then the data is cut into over a hundred thousand pieces in order to feed the ai with the processed
data the ai educates itself by internalizing them about a million times through trial and error
ai anchor jennifer is special in the sense that she has a naturalness that other ais do not have
we tried hard to embrace most of the anchor's motions and her expressions
it's after weeks and months of work and the combined
efforts of the whole team that ai jennifer finally got to see the light of the day
and our very own moon gangnam ultimately comes face to face with her twin at the
world's largest consumer electronics show in las vegas it's actually my first time
seeing myself after filming all that hours i think this is where the future will be
users of the lifelike anchor can type in whatever text they would like the ai anchor to read and
deliver off not only she can move and present the news like kanye but she can interact with people
in real time what do you like about ces ces 2022 will be housing various technologies
particularly in newly trending metaverse robotics and artificial intelligence such as myself
in this case it's an ai anchor but the firm's video synthesis solutions leverage the power of
artificial intelligence to create human-based ai avatars so that users can choose from a list of
ai humans and professions to cater to relevant industries we are currently providing ai
studios.com service uh using their service but any users can create their own ai videos you can
choose ai model first and then you can type the text script and then you can create ai videos
within just a few seconds there's no denying that this breakthrough begs the question can ai really
replace human journalists i think you know an anchor is there like i said as a storyteller
who can empathize with the viewers and tell a story and who can also carry on an interview
and conversations and dialogues so at the moment i think i think i'm a little safe but but you never
know what will happen with this fourth industrial revolution and the evolution of digital technology
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