Hua Zhibing officially registered and became a student of Beijing’s Tsinghua University on Tuesday. But she’s not just another student, but China’s first AI-powered, virtual student.

Hua Zhibing’s appearance, voice and even the music playing in the background of the vlog she introduced herself to the world in were all created using on a record-breaking AI modeling system called Wudao 2.0. It was unveiled at the 2021 Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference on June 1, and, according to its developers, it is the first trillion scale model in China and the largest in the world.

Wudao 2.0 is designed to enable machines to think like humans and is reportedly close to passing the Turing test in poetry and couplets creation, text summaries, answering questions and painting.

Tsinghua University’s newest student will study in the Department of Computer Science and Technology and is expected to grow and learn faster than an average actual person. Having already developed a strong interest in fine arts and literature, Hua Zhibing can already compose tunes, write poems and draw pictures.

Tang Jie, the computer science professor teaching the AI student at Tsinghua University, told Sixth Tone that Hua currently has the cognitive level of a six-year-old, but is expected to reach the level of a 12-year-old in a year’s time.

“I’ve been addicted to literature and art since I was ‘born,” Hua Zhibing said in her first vlog, on Chinese platform Weibo. “I became interested in my birth. How was I born? Can I understand myself?”

Prof. Tang believes that Hua Zhibing is different than any other AI-powered virtual character in that she has some ability in reasoning and emotional interaction. Tang and the other researchers involved in the project hope that she will have a higher EQ (emotional intelligence) and be able to communicate like a real human at some point.

Wudao 2.0, the model behind Hua Zhibing, uses 1.75 trillion parameters to simulate conversational speech, write poems and understand pictures, thus surpassing the record of 1.6 trillion parameters set by Google’s Switch Transformer.

China has been making strides in the field of artificial technology in recent years, and its life-like virtual news anchors are clear proof of that.

Source: https://www.odditycentral.com/technology/meet-chinas-first-ai-powered-virtual-university-student.html

Lol. Nawa

I hope she is waterproof

China is seriously on a fast lane in technology.

Wow

Not surprised.... Univer of ibadan has done this since 2016....

Abu zaria since 2018

Bayero University Kano, 2020


China is too slow to be doing this now

DenreleDave:
Not surprised.... Univer of ibadan has done this since 2016....

Abu zaria since 2018

Bayero University Kano, 2020


China is too slow to be doing this now

lori iro

Wow

Good thinking country

Please someone should explain in plain terms to me, I no understand wetin I read

DenreleDave:
Not surprised.... Univer of ibadan has done this since 2016....

Abu zaria since 2018

Bayero University Kano, 2020


China is too slow to be doing this now

Have done what
Maybe in Nollywood

tehilah92:
Please someone should explain in plain terms to me, I no understand wetin I read

China just created a computer human being and sent her to school

In other words she is a ROBOTIC STUDENT.

story

Great...

Them just wan suffer this robot, why didn't they just download/upload all this knowledge to the robot than allow it to learn it to sit in the class to learn them. I just hope the robot understands and feel pain and emotion like human do before it start misbehaving.

The painful part of this whole thing is that wan yeye Chinese guy now will fall in love with the bot and want to marry her abi it.

Exjoker:
Them just wan suffer this robot, why didn't they just download/upload all this knowledge to the robot than allow it to learn it to sit in the class to learn them. I just hope the robot understands and feel pain and emotion like human do before it start misbehaving.

The painful part of this whole thing is that wan yeye Chinese guy now will fall in love with the bot and want to marry her abi it.

I think the idea is to let it learn, understand and grow, for it to develop preferences and likes, maybe study if an AI can develop emotions and fall in love

one day Chinko people will invent wetin go kill everyone

Paulpaulpaul:


China just created a computer human being and sent her to school

What! Asin how, she dey breath

Jeez!
China is doing great. Infact my film carear is sucesful because of china..
God bless china for my cine cam,anamorphic lens,stabilizer,drone etc.

Whats the need sending it to school when they could programme everything it needs to know into it. Unless the want to make a point to God.

Chinese are making progress in artificial intelligence

1Alex:
one day Chinko people will invent wetin go kill everyone

Not one day, they have just started cos the day one nut will loose from this one brain, all the people around it will dance sokoso

Come abeg make dem stop this thing.
So u mean i go waka con see robot, toast am finsh, na con iron kpekus i go see

Afamsi:
Whats the need sending it to school when they could programme everything it needs to know into it. Unless the want to make a point to God.

procidual learning..
since it's not just a robot,programing it would have eliminated the A.i theory in it..
Mind you they are many programed robot around the world doing a specific work.

Telegram234:
Come abeg make dem stop this thing.
So u mean i go waka con see robot, toast am finsh, na con iron kpekus i go see

silicon kpekus you mean just like alita the battle angel.

but upon everything why kpekus this early mor mor

tehilah92:
Please someone should explain in plain terms to me, I no understand wetin I read

That lady with backpack is an AI

Telegram234:
Come abeg make dem stop this thing.
So u mean i go waka con see robot, toast am finsh, na con iron kpekus i go see

She go get iron kpekus na. Something that will grow like every human being