The world's first virtual news anchor has started broadcasting the news to Chinese viewers.
Beijing's state news agency has unveiled the newsreader, who they say "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor."
The station say that the presenter can work 24-hours a day on news, the website and on social media channels which will reduce production costs.
Here's the start of his very first broadcast:
During his first broadcast, the artificial intelligence presenter said: “Not only can I accompany you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, I can be endlessly copied and present at different scenes to bring you the news.”
He also 'learns' from live broadcasting videos and can read text naturally.
The anchor was jointly developed by Xinhua and the Chinese search engine firm Sogou.com.
