Meet China's latest AI news anchor, a young woman who runs virtual Q&A sessions to teach people propaganda

来认识一下中国最新的人工智能新闻主播吧，她是一名年轻的女性，主持虚拟问答环节

Ren iaorong debuted on Weibo on Sunday and so far only works with preset questions and responses.  Chinese state media outlet People's Daily has unveiled its digital news anchor, who'll be online 24/7.

任小融于周日首次在微博上亮相，目前为止仅主持预设问答环节。中国官媒《人民日报》发布了其数字新闻主播，该主播将全天候在线。

The AI-driven chatbot claims to have learned the skills of "thousands of news anchors." It's so far only been able to answer pre-set questions with propaganda-driven responses.

这款人工智能驱动的聊天机器人声称已经学习了“数千名新闻主播”的技能。到目前为止，她只能回答预先设定的问题。

China has unveiled its latest digital news anchor, an "artificial intelligence" entity that claims to provide 24/7 news coverage.

中国推出了最新的数字新闻主播，这是一个“人工智能”主播，据称可以全天候24小时报道新闻。

The anchor, a virtual young woman called Ren iaorong, introduced herself to Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in a video published on Sunday by state media People's Daily. Sporting a black jacket and shoulder-length hair tucked behind her ears, Ren claims to harness the professional skills of "thousands of news anchors."

在官方媒体《人民日报》周日发布的一段视频中，这位名叫任小融的虚拟年轻主播在微博做了自我介绍。她身穿黑色西服，齐肩长发别在耳后，她声称自己从数千个真人主播那里学习了专业技能。

"365 days, 24 hours. News broadcasts about any topic all year round," Ren says in a robotic tone. "Ever single bit of feedback you give will help me improve myself," the bot added in the video.

且能365天24小时全年无休播报，并出现在各种新闻现场。任小融还说，她能与观众直接对话，“你的每一个反馈都会让我提升自己，更加智能”。

People on Weibo, a platform that's heavily moderated and censored, still gave Ren a warm welcome despite her limited capabilities.

尽管她的能力有限，但在微博这个严格审核的平台上，人们仍然对她表示热烈欢迎。

"This figure looks pretty good! Technology is changing with each passing day," wrote one Weibo user. "If it wasn't for the synthetic dubbing, on first glance you wouldn't be able to tell if this was a virtual person. Will news anchors be replaced by AI in the future?" wrote another.

“这个主播看起来很不错!”技术日新月异，”一位微博用户写道。“如果不是人工配音，第一眼你根本看不出这是不是一个虚拟人。未来新闻主播会被人工智能取代吗?”

以下是美国reddit网民的评论：

YourWiseOldFriend

It speaks to how far education has been dumbed down that people would expect a virtual news anchor to be anything else than a mouthpiece for national interests. Even human corporate shills say the same thing on US tv.

As with everything: it's not because it's new that it is better for that reason alone.

这说明教育已经被简化到了什么程度，人们期待的虚拟新闻主播，不过是利益的喉舌。和所有东西一样：新的不代表更好。

dgj212

I would never watch that except the one time to see what it looks like and then never again.

Well get used to it, all the tech bros like elon musk and jeff bezos praise china for their model and think the us should adopt it, so odds are it will be adopted by the us, maybe not in main media outlets right away, but odds are all tech companies will probably have an ai mascot to act as the company's mouth piece...you know, if the economy doesn't collapse this year.

看过一次知道什么样子的，我就再也不会看了。所有的科技大亨，比如埃隆·马斯克和杰夫·贝佐斯，都赞扬中国的模式，并认为美国应该采用，所以它很可能会被美国采用，也许不会马上在主要媒体上出现，但很可能所有的科技公司都会有一个人工智能吉祥物作为公司的代言人。如果今年经济没有崩溃的话。

JaggedMetalOs

It's so far only been able to answer pre-set questions with propaganda-driven responses

Right, so "AI" in the same way that video game NPCs have AI. Just more tech fluff from the chinese.

到目前为止，它只能回答预先设定的问题没错，所以和电子游戏NPC里的AI一样。

ghostgnome

Can't let the chatbot "hallucinate" about  alternative forms of government.

不能让聊天机器人对其他形式的政府产生“幻觉”。

krichuvisz

It's incredible how they always do the obvious villain shit without any shame.

令人难以置信的是，他们总是毫无羞耻地做那些显而易见的坏人的事情。

urmomaisjabbathehutt

they started with call centres, then anchors, actors, singers, virtual sports, then virtual GPs, lawyers and judges, politicians....

real people being substituted by virtual people upon virtual people

soon they are going to have even virtual things to make it look even more real, bet even food like juicy steaks too!

where are they gonna get all the energy to run all that virtual er "network"?

他们从呼叫中心开始，然后是主播、演员、歌手、虚拟运动，然后是虚拟全科医生、律师和法官、政客……

真实的人被虚拟的人取代。很快他们甚至会有虚拟的东西让它看起来更真实，甚至是多汁牛排这样的食物！他们从哪里获得所有的能量来运行这些虚拟的网络呢？

bearpie1214

i love how people always call news in china propaganda. calling others terrorists also. we’re all the same. every country has both.

人们总是把中国的新闻称为宣传，还抹黑别人是恐怖分子。其实，我们都一样，每个国家都有。

Azaze666

The dystopia continues I guess.... China is really sad 

我想反乌托邦还在继续。中国真的很可别

dgj212

...I mean, have you seen giant corporations all over the world green washing their image?

你们见过世界各地的大公司都在漂绿自己的形象吗？

Perma-Banned-AIDS

Get her to strip!!! Show us the pixels we all really want!!

让她脱衣，给我们展示我们真正想要看的

SocialIQof0

I read news from China, and here's the thing, at least everyone knows it's propaganda. No one is pretending it isn't. Opposed to a lot of other places.

我看了来自中国的新闻，问题是至少每个人都知道这是宣传，没有人假装觉得它不是，和其他很多地方不同。

Self_Ty_Keyboard

Reads china bad propaganda piece about about china having propaganda

“Gee wiz, I sure am glad I live in the West and don’t have to be manipulated by propaganda like those poor Chinese. No, our news institutions are not the same at all”

continues life without a hint of irony

看了关于中国宣传的文章。 天哪，我很高兴我生活在西方，不用像那些可怜的中国人那样被宣传操纵。不，我们的新闻机构完全不一样，毫无讽刺意味，继续生活吧

arckeid

Just look to the other comments every one is being manipulated.

看看其他的评论，每个人都被操纵了。

visitprattville

The Bukkake version is already causing quite a commotion, and will likely replace as many as one million Japanese workers.

Bukkake版本已经引起了不小的骚动，可能会取代多达100万的日本工人。

RequalsC0m

Republicans are taking notes. Another co unist method they can steal and apply here

共和党人正在做笔记，他们可以窃取并在美国应用

LewLew2019

Joke's on them, tucker has been an AI prop bot this whole time

开玩笑，塔克一直都是人工智能道具机器人

Rusted_Hulk

This is a preview of the end of 'AI', a non-conscious, non-intelligent influence machine pretending to be everyone's smart friend, just don't look at the little man behind the curtain. The 'singularity' is going to look a lot like more ads and propaganda.

这是“人工智能”终结的预告，一个没有意识，没有智能的机器假装是每个人的聪明朋友，别看窗帘后面的小人。“奇点”看起来更像是宣传。

Avid Voter

Imagine brining this tech just to the 1980's. It would be like magic, not for a moment would they assume that's not a real breathing huma. Also bonus points for them, no need (yet) to threaten sn AI to do what you want.

想象一下把这项技术带到20世纪80年代。这就像变魔术一样，他们会认为那是一个真正会呼吸的人类。对他们来说还有额外的好处，没有必要(目前)威胁 AI去做你想做的事。

Dry_Budget_1450

Is she available for some netflix and bingchilling?

她有时间看netflix和bingchill吗?

Endlessexstance

All they had to do was buy CNN or MSNBC. Could of saved money.

他们只需要买下CNN或MSNBC。可以省下一笔钱。

nowayjose081

its so pathetic 

太可悲了

dgj212

you do realize that the fact that we are on a site that began with bot users to make it seem lived in to draw in a crowd means we're next, right? Not trying to be mean, just trying to point that out.

你们应该意识到，我们现在看的一开始就有机器人用户，好吸引人群。我不是想刻薄，只是想指出这一点。