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China’s Xinhua puts world’s first female AI news presenter on the job

Last November, AI news presenter anchor Qiu Hao was unveiled during the World Internet Conference in China

Chinese news organization Xinhua has put its first female Artificial Intelligence (AI) news moderator at work, flagging an unmistakable risk to human writers in the years to come.

Brandishing a short hair style and wearing a pink dress, the AI robot named “Xin Xiaomeng” made its presentation in a short, one-minute video on Sunday as China’s Two Sessions – the nation’s greatest political gatherings of the year – commenced.

The Two Sessions occasion is consecutive gatherings between the Chinese Peoplea¿s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC).

Xinhua has offered life to “Xin Xiaomeng” as a team with Chinese web crawler organization Soguo.

“Xiaomeng” joins two male AI grapples effectively working with the news office.

Last November, AI news moderator grapple Qiu Hao was divulged amid the World Internet Conference in China.

There is another, an improved male AI robot named Xin Xiaohao “who can signal, stand, and move more normally than Xin Xiaomeng or Qiu Hao”, said a report in interestingengineering.com.

Qiu Hao has just exhibited 3,400 reports and collected 10,000 minutes of screen time.

Xinhua has likewise been trying different things with a robot correspondent called “Jia”.

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NASA declares end of Opportunity rover’s mission on Mars

NASA has reported the finish of its Opportunity wanderer’s central goal, 15 years after its landing on Mars.

The declaration was made on Wednesday at a question and answer session at the office’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, following NASA’s last endeavor to speak with the meanderer on Tuesday night which got no reaction, Xinhua announced.

The meanderer keep going spoke with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide residue storm covered the sun based fueled wanderer’s area on Mars. It has not been gotten notification from for eight months from that point forward.

Opportunity likely encountered a low-control blame, a mission clock blame and an up-misfortune clock blame, as per the mission group.

Colleagues have endeavored to energize the meanderer from that point onward, and transmitted in excess of a thousand directions to reestablish contact. Be that as it may, no flag was gotten notification from once more.

“Bidding a fond farewell is difficult, yet it comes the time,” said John Callas, venture administrator for Opportunity.

“It is a direct result of trailblazing missions, for example, Opportunity that there will come multi day when our valiant space explorers stroll on the outside of Mars,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

“At the point when that day arrives, some segment of that first impression will be possessed by the people of Opportunity, and a little wanderer that resisted the chances and did as such much for the sake of investigation,” he said.

The golf-truck estimated wanderer far surpassed its arranged 90-day mission lifetimes. It has worked for almost 15 years and went more than 45 km when it achieved its most suitable last laying spot on Mars – Perseverance Valley.

Opportunity arrived on Mars on January 24, 2004. First among the mission’s logical objectives was to scan for and portray a wide scope of rocks and soils for hints to past water action on Mars.

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