Super-Realistic AI Anchor "Yating" Becomes Global Ambassador for Culture and Technology. Taiwan AI Labs Unveils Pioneering AI Studios at TTXC Taiwan Culture and Technology Conference

2023.10.4

In a groundbreaking move at the inaugural TTXC Taiwan Culture and Technology Conference, a national-level cultural and technological event jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture, Kaohsiung City Government, and the Digital Development Bureau, a virtual character took center stage as the event's spokesperson. Meet AI anchor "Yating," meticulously crafted by Taiwan AI Labs!

Since the announcement, AI anchor "Yating(艾雅婷)" has been making appearances across various locations in Kaohsiung City, engaging in face-to-face interactions with citizens through platforms such as the metro and taxis. Demonstrating remarkable realism and fluent communication skills, she showcases the maturity of artificial intelligence technology. Many viewers are unaware that she is an AI-generated virtual anchor. Janelle Chien, Secretary-General of the Kaohsiung City Cultural Bureau, even mistook "Yating" for a real person upon their first meeting. Upon realizing that "Yating" is, in fact, non-existent, the imagination about the future use of AI anchors in cultural technology became even more vivid.

Ethan Tu(杜奕瑾), founder of Taiwan AI Labs, stated that in this era of generative AI, public imagination may still be focused on technologies like ChatGPT or on commercial applications such as finance and healthcare. However, "AI Future Studios" serves as a leading demonstration of the integration of Taiwan's cultural technology with AI generative technology. It provides limitless creative possibilities for future arts and culture creators, allowing them to generate highly realistic scenes, manuscripts, music, and characters based on their imaginations.

"Ai Yating" is the first demonstration of the development of "AI Future Studios," a generative AI technology by Taiwan AI Labs. In the "AI Evolution" exhibition area within the expansive coral reef, "Ai Yating" will be present, engaging in interactive dialogues with the audience. The Future Studio will showcase two of the latest and most sought-after AI applications: "AI Dream Studio" and "AI Your Name." These technologies will demonstrate cutting-edge applications of generative AI, including on-the-fly scene generation, handwriting generation, and music generation.

Ethan Tu further explained that "AI Future Studios" can facilitate all-encompassing creation, from story creation and storyboarding to music generation and character creation. In this immersive and spatially informed generative universe, artificial intelligence can transform any idea, no matter how strange or imaginative, into reality. This epitomizes the perfect fusion of technology and art and stands as a testament to their integration.

As a crucial milestone in Taiwan AI Labs' research and development, the debut of "Ai Yating" and the launch of "AI Future Studios" symbolize new dynamics and possibilities for Taiwan's leadership in the field of generative AI, driven by cultural creativity.

Introduction to AI Anchor Ai Yating
"Ai Yating" integrates two major AI applications: AI Avatar for virtual human images and AI voice synthesis. Trained with data from professional anchors, "Ai Yating" not only has a realistic appearance but also possesses a unique personality and rich gestures, interacting fluently in multiple languages with the audience. Through deep training with large language models, "Ai Yating" exhibits highly automated and versatile performance capabilities. In terms of voice, "Ai Yating" utilizes the advanced voice recognition and voice synthesis technology of Yating Intelligence to transform text into natural and fluent speech while maintaining the most authentic Taiwanese accent. This advanced technology finds widespread applications, including e-book reading, voice navigation, voice assistants, dubbing for dramas and movies, customer service applications, and education and training, among others.