The technology of an AI blockchain company is officially used in China's national weight gala.
In the 2019 Network Spring Festival Gala, Sabine ushered in a brand new partner - the virtual host "Little Sabine" powered by the American AI blockchain company ObEN.
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"Little Sam" appeared on the scene, Bening could not help but survey a long time: "My God, I feel like looking in the mirror." Benin has just pulled out his desktop, ready to announce the next link, "Little Sam" will steal the words of the little Sam. Benin and just ready to open his mouth to speak, "small small" and said Benin's lines - "say small small lines, so that small small speech".
On the side of the Sabine very aggrieved: "can give me a sentence?"
That night, and the "little Sam" together with the appearance of CCTV celebrities Zhu Xun, Gao Bo, Long Yang's twin AI hosts - "Zhu Xiaoxun", "Gao Xiaobo", "Long Xiaoyang". Among them, "Zhu Xiaoxun" a white robe, stable and dignified, such as a fairy, the audience praised: Zhu Xiaoxun is the most beautiful virtual host once in four thousand years. The four virtual hosts are also in line to compete with the "Queen of Fuchsia," Qin Lan, in the same field.
The first instance of real-life interaction in the country is from the U.S.
Meeting a strong rival, Benin also laughed and said he felt a professional crisis: "The development of the technology is really beyond our imagination. I remember five years ago, I asked an AI expert whether the host industry would be replaced by AI in the future. He said it was about five years away. It seems the time has come for me to say goodbye to everyone."
Although "laid off and retired" is a joke, but the rapid rise of artificial intelligence can not be ignored. Earlier, a virtual host tried to host virtually in the studio.
Compared to previous attempts at virtual hosting, the CCTV network Spring Festival Gala in the "Little Sam", "Zhu Xiaoxun", "Gao Xiaobo", "Long Xiaoyang" technical innovation can be said to be a big step forward." Virtual hosts such as "Xiao Xiaosha", formerly known as PAI, is a new type of AI host researched and invented by ObEN, a Chinese-owned state AI company. According to Zheng Yi, co-founder and chief operating officer of ObEN, "The virtual host itself is a new carrier for brand new content, learning autonomously from two big angles, visual and sound, to provide a more three-dimensional and realistic presentation of the host." In the 2019 CCTV Network Spring Festival Gala, surging (PAI) is the first time to realize the interaction with real people in a live environment, which is unprecedented in the domestic artificial intelligence community.
Intelligent surging (PAI) birth: more than 20 patents applied for technology to achieve "immortality"
Compared with the previous rigid, mechanical image of the virtual host technology, now the introduction of the development of artificial intelligence (AI) results, the structure of the "AI virtual host". In particular, this network Spring Festival Gala, according to the prototype host produced by the virtual host in the technology has improved considerably. These people marveled at the intelligent host, in the end, what kind of process was born?
According to the even state staff, in more than 20 patent pending technology escort, into the surging (PAI) virtual world is not imagined so fantastical, only the facial scanning of the hosts such as Sabine and half an hour of recording data, you can generate the image and voice model. With the sound model, any input text can be read or sung in Sabine's voice, even in four languages, Chinese, Japanese, English and Korean. As more and more data is fed, the Little Sabin of the Nurture Department will master more skills and even understand Sabin's preferences, way of speaking, etc., and become more similar to him on another level. Zhu Xun said, "Through the form of data carriers, interacting intimately with the real world, in a sense we are realizing 'immortality'."
This personalization is also reflected in the show - the virtual host combines artificial intelligence and motion capture training to simulate the host's spoken expressions, facial expressions, gestures, physical movements, and scene interactions. In the scene, through the sensor and motion tracking equipment, the host's every move, joy, anger, sadness, and even intimate interaction with the audience, are all presented in the virtual host.
In addition to completing the AI hosting work, the virtual host can also appear on the phone to pay tribute to the audience. The audience can scan the QR code and let "Xiao Xiao Sa" and "Zhu Xiao Xun" celebrate the New Year for their family and friends, which is no longer a dream, and the AI technology can be closer to people's daily life. The company's advanced 3D image reconstruction technology allows viewers to get their own AI "twin" simply by uploading a selfie - everyone can have their own personal virtual twin, which will help them explore more possibilities in social, entertainment, and medical fields in the era of Artificial Intelligence.
A new form of AI+Blockchain cooperation
In addition, PuppetBang is also one of the key partners of Project PAI, a public AI chain, and hopes to use the PuppetBang blockchain to identify and protect everyone's AI copyrights and ensure the security and traceability of user data, which can be used only with authorization from other people. authorization to use it. These data include not only image and voice, but in the future also include ID cards, medical records, vital signs, behavioral data in the digital world, and so on.
Evenbang has previously used this technology to build a PAI for K11 founder Zheng Zhigang, to guide people through exhibitions, and to create virtual avatars for members of SNH48, ****acting and singing in the same music video, and so on. In the future, star companies can produce and manage individual virtual AIs around their artists, as well as develop related derived AI private blockchains on the PAI public chain, and issue the company's virtual coins to their fans for concert tickets, movie tickets, digital recordings, avatar interactions, and interactions with star-endorsed products. Additionally, it stimulates the production of large amounts of valuable blockchain-based interaction data.
Thinking one level deeper, the combination of Evenbang AI and blockchain provides an idea for exploring the issue of human trust in AI. In an interview with Forbes, Zheng Yi said, "Five years from now, when driverless cars are on the road, can people dare not believe that the AI driving the car will always make the right decision? Certain key variables of AI decision-making must be centered on protecting humans, be unmodifiable, and not be iterated by algorithms. The convergence of AI and blockchain could provide an idea for solving the problem of human trust in AI."
The first cooperation between CCTV and Evenbang ****together opens the door to a new world of digital virtualization; it is not difficult to imagine that the bold attempts of the Evenbang team in artificial intelligence in the future will also subconsciously change people's lifestyles.