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2018-11-10 Science & Technology

The 'world's first' A.I. news anchor has gone live in China

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Posted by Fred 2018-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 We are still stuck in the artificial stupidity stage. Most anchors are programmed daily with a limited number of Democrat talking points which they deliver with a kind of robotic affect. Little learning is involved.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-11-10 01:00|| 2018-11-10 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Fire All the News Anchors and "Talking Head" commentators...
Way back, about 1982 IIRC, the local Cable TV distributor had the "Raw" AP Headline feed on one of the channels. All capitol letters and a single paragraph on each story in a very terse "Just the facts, Ma'am!" format-- my understanding was that the local news outlets could "buy" an expanded version if they were interested. Then watching the very same story slanted on the Nightly News I wondered if I had been transported to some alternate reality. The facts kinda-sorta matched but the Spin was totally different... At that point my trust in the MSM died.

Posted by magpie 2018-11-10 02:05|| 2018-11-10 02:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Shades of Ron Burgundy:
"He'll read ANYTHING you put on the teleprompter"
"Anything?"
"ANYTHING"

Posted by Frank G 2018-11-10 06:43|| 2018-11-10 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 What about Don Lemon? Or does there have to be a measure of some kind of intelligence?

Posted by gorb 2018-11-10 18:47|| 2018-11-10 18:47|| Front Page Top

#5 What about Don Lemon?

I'm all for AI robot newsreaders. After all, artificial intelligence is better than no intelligence at all.

Hell, I could replace Don Lemon tomorrow with a Markov chain and a text-to-speech module

Posted by SteveS 2018-11-10 19:13|| 2018-11-10 19:13|| Front Page Top

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