DD Kisan Channel to launch AI anchor agriculture and land on 26th May 2024

DD Kisan Channel to launch AI anchor agriculture and land on 26th May 2024

Daily Current Affairs / DD Kisan Channel to launch AI anchor agriculture and land on 26th May 2024

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Category : National Published on: May 27 2024

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DD Kisan, the public broadcaster of the Government of India, Doordarshan's channel has announced the launch of two artificial intelligence (AI) anchors, Krish and Bhumi on 26 May 2024.
These AI anchors will disseminate information related to the latest prices of agricultural markets, weather updates and the latest research done in agriculture in India and abroad.
AI anchors can speak in 50 languages and broadcast news 24 hours a day, 365 days a day without stopping or tiring.
DD Kisan was launched on 26th May 2015 and is celebrating its 9th year of establishment.
The world's first AI news anchor was introduced in 2018 by Chinese state news agency Xinhua, named Qiu Hao.
The first AI news anchor in India, Sana, was introduced by the India Today Group on Aaj Tak Hindi News Channel in 2023.
Sana looks like a human being and can read data from a computer using text-to-speech technology, which till date has been used to deliver news updates several times a day on the channel.

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