First virtual student 'enrolls' at Tsinghua University
With the move, Hua officially became a student in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The virtual student was co-developed by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Zhipu AI and a company, Xiaoice. It is powered by the second generation of WuDao, a pre-trained model.
"Compared with other common pre-trained models like GPT-3, WuDao is a multimodal model, which can understand and generate pictures and other content formats," said Tang Jie, deputy dean of academic affairs at the academy and a Tsinghua University professor.
GPT-3 is English-centered, while WuDao is multilingual, including in both English and Chinese. In the future, more languages will be added, Tang said.
"WuDao is also more open than GPT-3 and many other pre-trained models. The training data, programming codes and model APIs are all open to the public," he added.
Tang pointed out that the potential of such models is huge, as many real scenarios can use the same model with more general large pre-trained models.
