A Kuwaiti outlet showed a virtual television presenter, generated by artificial intelligence (AI)with the idea of leading a newscast in this Gulf country.
Dressed in a white T-shirt and a black jacket, “Fedha” appeared on the Twitter account of the current affairs website Kuwait News on Saturdaywithin a project that is still in the testing phase.
“I am Fedha, the first presenter in Kuwait to work with artificial intelligence in Kuwait News. What kind of news do you prefer? Let’s listen to their views,” she says in classical Arabic.
The website, affiliated with the Kuwait Times (KT), the first English-language daily in the Gulf founded in 1961, is testing the potential of artificial intelligence to propose “new and innovative content”KT editor-in-chief Abdullah Boftain told AFP.
In his opinion, the presenter could in the future adopt a Kuwaiti accent and present a news report on the Kuwait News Twitter account, with more than 1.2 million followers.
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About the physical appearance of the presenter, blonde with light eyes, It reflects, according to Boftain, the diversity of the oil-rich country’s population, made up of Kuwaitis and expatriates. “Fedha represents the whole world,” he asserts.
Your 13-second introductory video It has aroused many reactions on social networks, especially from journalists.
“Our jobs are in jeopardy. Will Fedha and his colleagues be our replacements in the near future?” wonders one of them.