{"id":7196,"date":"2021-07-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:31:19","slug":"the-first-virtual-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/technology\/the-first-virtual-student\/","title":{"rendered":"The #1 Virtual Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) along with the Chinese government has developed the first virtual student named Hua Zhibing with WuDao 2.0. She began her education at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WuDao 2.0\u00a0is one of the most prominent language AI models that comes with 1.75 trillion parameters, beating\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/blog\/openai-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GPT-3\u00a0<\/a>and Google\u2019s size Switch Transformer. \u201cWuDao 2.0 aims to enable \u2018machines\u2019 to think like \u2018humans\u2019 and achieve cognitive abilities beyond the Turing test,\u201d said Tang Jie, the lead researcher behind Wu Dao 2.0.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The First Virtual Student<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The virtual student model will learn faster than the average rate from the virtual student\u2019s processing capabilities. As a result, the model\u2019s learning levels should improve from that of a 6-year-old to a 12-year-old in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WuDao 2.0 is a pre-trained AI model that assists with simulations of conversational speech, understands pictures, writes poems, and even can generate recipes. The language model was trained with a training system similar to Google\u2019s Mixture of Experts called FastMoE, a Fast Mixture-of-Expert (MoE). FastMoE is an open-source system based on Facebook\u2019s open-source framework, PyTorch, along with available accelerators. FastMoE provides the hierarchical interface to generate the flexible model design quickly and adapt to various applications; it also supports large-scale parallel training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WuDao 2.0 has an added advantage over GPT-3: it can operate in both Chinese and English. This level of robustness was acquired from training with 4.9 terabytes of texts and images that include 1.2 terabytes of Chinese and 1.2 terabytes of English texts, and 2.5 terabytes of Chinese graphic data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers also say that the next generation Wu Dao model will predict complex models like 3D structures of proteins, similar to that of DeepMind\u2019s AlphaFold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\">Still curious?<\/a> Learn more about our Platform Growth By Curiosity and discover more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt meta_deko\"><p>The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) along with the Chinese government has developed the first virtual student named Hua Zhibing with WuDao 2.0. She began her education at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Want to know how this is possible? <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-hero-cover.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7199,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growthbycuriosity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}