{"id":9627,"date":"2023-04-14T11:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/as-a-presenter-i-can-tell-you-tv-news-needs-a-human-touch-this-ai-newsreader-wont-give-you-that-simon-mccoy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T09:42:15","slug":"as-a-presenter-i-can-tell-you-tv-news-needs-a-human-touch-this-ai-newsreader-wont-give-you-that-simon-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/14\/as-a-presenter-i-can-tell-you-tv-news-needs-a-human-touch-this-ai-newsreader-wont-give-you-that-simon-mccoy\/","title":{"rendered":"As a presenter I can tell you, TV news needs a human touch. This AI newsreader won\u2019t give you that | Simon McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

They may be cheaper and less trouble, but they\u2019ll never have the gravitas, the engagement or the raised eyebrow of reporters like me<\/p>\n

\u201cThe news is \u2026 there is no news.\u201d With those words, outside St Mary\u2019s Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George<\/a> in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC<\/a> went viral on the internet. My somewhat testy response to standing in the street with nothing to say had struck a chord with many. Not for what I was saying but the way I was saying it. The resigned look. The world-weary tone. The slight annoyance that four decades of reporting from around the globe had led to this moment. I couldn\u2019t hide it. Viewers knew what I was thinking and feeling. Some were annoyed by it. Quite a few people appreciated it \u2013 because they could relate to it. Because they are human. And so am I.<\/p>\n

\u201cFedha<\/a>\u201d is not human. Yes, the blond woman with light-coloured eyes, wearing a black jacket and a white T-shirt, looks human. She even sounds human. But this week she was introduced as the first presenter in Kuwait who works by artificial intelligence. \u201cWhat kind of news do you prefer? Let\u2019s hear your opinions,\u201d she says in Arabic.<\/p>\n

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\nThey may be cheaper and less trouble, but they\u2019ll never have the gravitas, the engagement or the raised eyebrow of reporters like me
\n\u201cThe news is \u2026 there is no news.\u201d With those words, outside St Mary\u2019s Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC went viral on the internet. My somewhat testy response to standing in the street with nothing to say had struck a chord with many. Not for what I was saying but the way I was saying it. The resigned look. The world-weary tone. The slight annoyance that four decades of reporting from around the globe had led to this moment. I couldn\u2019t hide it. Viewers knew what I was thinking and feeling. Some were annoyed by it. Quite a few people appreciated it \u2013 because they could relate to it. Because they are human. And so am I.
\n\u201cFedha\u201d is not human. Yes, the blond woman with light-coloured eyes, wearing a black jacket and a white T-shirt, looks human. She even sounds human. But this week she was introduced as the first presenter in Kuwait who works by artificial intelligence. \u201cWhat kind of news do you prefer? Let\u2019s hear your opinions,\u201d she says in Arabic. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They may be cheaper and less trouble, but they\u2019ll never have the gravitas, the engagement or the raised eyebrow of reporters like me \u201cThe news is \u2026 there is no news.\u201d With those words, outside St Mary\u2019s Hospital in London awaiting the birth of Prince George in July 2013, my reporting for the BBC went …<\/p>\n

As a presenter I can tell you, TV news needs a human touch. This AI newsreader won\u2019t give you that | Simon McCoy<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}