There is now a radio that is 100% created by machines. There is no human behind this radio: not a host, not a music programmer, not a journalist. This radio is called RadioGPT. GPT, like ChatGPT, this conversational agent that makes so much talk. An American company called Futuri has just launched a system allowing you to create a radio in a completely virtual way. This feat was achieved by assembling several pieces of a somewhat special algorithmic puzzle.
Three ingredients
The Futuri company used three ingredients. The first is its own tool, called TopicPulse. As its name suggests, it is a robot that will scan Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more than 250,000 news sources. The purpose of this tool is to detect all the news that makes people talk regarding them in a defined region.
The second ingredient is GPT. The conversational agent will analyze all this news and write scripts. The machine will produce news flashes, weather reports, traffic updates and even contests.
And the third ingredient in this cocktail is the artificial voice. Or rather the voices, since they are animators who recite these texts, announce the songs and even make jokes on the air.
It is therefore machines that create the content, stage it live and read it on the air. And the excerpts put online by the Futuri company are very convincing, whether to present an artist or announce the latest information. There are even conversations between two robots.
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Futuri officials assure that this is not the end of humans in radios. According to them, RadioGPT will be more of a great tool to create even more local content. It will be possible to use artificial intelligence to translate live into English a radio broadcast in Spanish by adding information from the region. The person in charge assures that radios will want to make dialogue a animator with a machine.
For the future, these systems might extend to television. We have already seen in China virtual presenters, made of synthetic images. So why not TV channels without any human on the screen…
Anouch Seydtaghia
