Artificial Intelligence

AI to Host The World’s Most-Watched TV Show

Introduction:

Have you ever imagined your favorite TV show host to be a virtual copy? Imagine a virtual copy of Mr. Amitabh Bachchan hosting Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC). How would it be? Most of us have happy memories of watching television with our family when we were young. Television has become an inevitable part of modern culture. People depend on TV for entertainment, weather, news, education, culture, sports, and even music. It enables them to share cultural experiences with others. The world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) TV hosts conducted at the China Central Television (CCTV) New Year’s Gala. (The world’s most-watched TV broadcast.)

The world’s most-watched TV broadcast:

The total audience to tune into the Chinese state broadcaster’s Spring Festival Gala was over 1.17 billion people all over the world. The four world-famous human hosts of the show, Beining Sa, Xun Zhu, Bo Gao, and Yang Long, were accompanied by an “AI copy” of themselves, which was their very own digital twin.

This personal artificial intelligence was created by ObEN Inc. and is being recognized as the first AI host. These systems are not just computer generated avatars, but also include machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and speech synthesis. This helps to rebuild the virtual copies of the celebrities from scratch.

“While the TV event was a showcase the company’s technology to the largest TV audience in the world, the potential of personal AIs and PAIs is still further out and could transform many areas of society.”

– said Mr. Nikhil Jain, CEO ObEN

The company has also started working to create AI-powered doctors, nurses, teacher, as well as highly famous celebrities.

What individuates ObEN’s AI-enabled avatars from other digital copies is that these avatars are able to talk and act like the people they represent and are powered by AI rather than actors or any prescriptive behavior routines. The beginning of the process of creating a virtual human being starts from visual data which allows the avatars to look like their subjects that are gathered from 3D scanners.

Neural net technology is built around deep learning principles and is used to take a recording of the subject’s voice as input data and personal data regarding the subject’s behaviors and actions. From that, it can recreate the speech patterns as well as aspects of their personality. It usually captures the voice data and the person speaking from a script. Then the AI learns the traits of your voice and can generate new content in your voice either talking or singing.

Not just in your native language but also it can able to create content in your voice in languages which you can’t even speak.

For example, I might record my data in English, but my personal AI can speak in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, says Jain.

Celebrity “digital twins” is seen as a hugely profitable case for the AI technology. As it has a huge market for new ways in which fans can interact with their heroes and role models. In some ways, it can be seen as a natural extension of  market for personalized greeting messages and endorsements offered by many famous figures in both Asian and Western markets. As well as watching them on television, PAIs will offer fans a chance to interact personally with their idols. ObEN has also built an interface using WeChat messaging service that allows anyone to have a conversation with one of its artificial intelligence avatars. This digital celebrities can also be deployed in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) environments, too.

Conclusion:

Companies like ObEN are growing swiftly in AI markets and as they grow they need more manpower to run their services smoothly. BSE Institute Limited (bsevarsity.com) helps one gain vital technical knowledge regarding Artificial Intelligence. A course on Master the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence with this institute can help one become a part of this emerging technology in  workplace.

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