阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。News anchors(主持人) must have been reluctant and felt it was like science fiction to read out the following news: Xin Xiaomeng began working as the world's first female artificial intelligence news anchor at Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, three months after a male robot joined the profession.
Unlike previous news robots though, Xin does not read news like a cold machine; she reads it more like a human being. The muscles on her face stretch and relax—and her reactions change—as she continues reading. That's why many news anchors are worried: Will AI replace us in the near future?
To find the answer, we have to analyse the technologies that support Xin at her job. Three key technologies are used to support Xin. First, samples of human voices are collected and synthesized (合成). This is followed by the collection and synthesis of human muscle movement samples. Third, the voices and movements are married(相结合) in a way that when the AI news anchor reads, the micro electric motors behind her face move to make her expressions seem more human.
Yet we need a thorough knowledge of deep learning technology to make a robot imitate a person's voice. The developer needs to collect tens of thousands of pieces of pronunciations, input them into the machine and match them with the text for the AI to learn and read. The process of imitating facial movements is similar. The developer has to analyse the movements of the 43 muscles in the human face, make a model set from the collected data for the AI news anchor to learn, and imitate the movements of facial muscles via programs.
Both the technologies used to make Xin's performance impressive are mature, whereas the real difficulty lies in the third—the technology to match the pronunciations with facial movements so that Xin's expressions vary according to the content of the news report. In fact, Xin's expressions don't always change according to the content. As a result, her expressions look anything but human. Actually, AI is still no match for human qualities.