The Digital Events Host - An impartial AI Powered Discussion Facilitator

这项创新的核心目标是帮助那些在压力大的情况下难以向广大观众表达自己想法和知识的人。这项创新将为任何人在任何地方在网络研讨会和其他数字活动中进行小组讨论提供一种简单的方式，而不是传统的基于幻灯片的演示。目前，没有自动化的方式实现高质量的小组讨论，只存在成本高昂的人工促成。我们的创新提供了一个人工智能促进者，它将促进讨论并充分发挥小组成员的作用，同时进行调整，使话语集中在预期的主题领域。商业和学术界的一个新兴趋势是由圆滑的主持人领导的小组讨论。小组成员不需要制作详细的演示文稿，而是简单地回答和讨论他们知识范围内的问题。我们的创新极大地降低了在网络研讨会和数字活动中创建小组讨论的时间、成本和技能水平。我们的技术部署了采访者和主持人经常使用的技术，尽管他们对讨论主题的理解可能有限，但他们需要研究，使用新闻技巧；回答，并使用战略性的问题时机来产生最佳采访表现。人工智能将通过“机器学习”进行训练，最初将被集成到WorkCast现有的在线工作室；在那里，内容被现场呈现和录制。更大的商业机会将作为一个独立的解决方案，可以被整合到更主流的网络研讨会解决方案，如团队，Hangout和Zoom。在这些情况下，虚拟的“主持人”将以与现有录制解决方案相同的方式加入活动。

At the heart of this innovation is the goal to facilitate those who struggle to articulate their ideas and knowledge in pressurised situations to large audiences.This innovation will provide an easy way for anyone, anywhere to produce panel discussions in webinars and other digital events rather than traditional slide-based presentations. Currently, there is no automated way of achieving quality panel discussions, and only cost prohibitive human-led facilitation exists. Our innovation provides an AI facilitator that will enhance a discussion and get the best from panelists, whilst adapting to keep the discourse focused on the intended subject areas.An emerging trend in business and academia is that of panel discussions led by slick moderation. Panelists are not expected to produce detailed presentations but instead, simply answer and discuss questions within their sphere of knowledge.Our innovation vastly reduces the time, cost, and skill level in creating panel discussions in webinars and digital events. Our technology deploys techniques regularly used by interviewers and facilitators who despite potentially limited understanding of the discussion subject, need to research, use journalistic skills; respond, and use strategic timing of questions to produce the best interview performance.The AI will be trained through "machine learning" and will initially be integrated into WorkCast's existing online studio; where content is presented live and recorded.The far larger commercial opportunity will be as a stand alone solution that can be incorporated into more mainstream webinar solutions like Teams, Hangouts, and Zoom. In these scenarios, the virtual 'facilitator' will join the event in the same way as existing recording solutions do today.