The television said so

Artificial intelligence, AI for friends, is increasingly part of our life even if sometimes we struggle to recognize it. The mobile phone that answers a question from us, the apartment that turns on the light after our request, the car that travels without a driver, the guide system of the Turin metro, all of this is AI.
In China, at the forefront of this technology, they have created a hologram of some well-known conducting journalists, using an AI capable of reproducing both the appearance and the specific movements of individuals, through a method of automatic learning from the broadcasts of real journalists.
Result: thousands of hours of broadcasting conducted by a computer with the appearance of real people.
Seeing the videos of these broadcasts, the progress made is truly remarkable and distinguishing the real from the artificial is increasingly difficult.
In short, in our future the phrase will be truer: television said so.


Stefano Ravizza
NP February 2022