{"id":103092,"date":"2021-06-15T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103092"},"modified":"2021-06-15T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T09:25:23","slug":"politico-meet-wu-dao-2-0-the-chinese-ai-model-making-the-west-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103092","title":{"rendered":"(Politico EU) Meet Wu Dao 2.0, the Chinese AI model making the West sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new artificial intelligence model developed by Chinese researchers is performing untold feats with image creation and natural language processing \u2014 making rivals in Europe and the U.S. nervous about falling behind.<\/p>\n<p>The model, dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/chinas-gigantic-multi-modal-ai-is-no-one-trick-pony-211414388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wu Dao 2.0<\/a>, is able to understand <em>everything<\/em> people say \u2014 the grammar too \u2014 but can also recognize images and generate realistic pictures based on descriptions. It can also write essays and poems in traditional Chinese, as well as predict the 3D structures of proteins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/ai-decoded\/\">POLITICO&#8217;S AI: Decoded<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Developed by the government-funded Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.pingwest.com\/a\/8693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled<\/a> last week, Wu Dao 2.0 appears to be among the world&#8217;s most sophisticated AI language models.<\/p>\n<p>Wu Dao 2.0&#8217;s creators say it&#8217;s 10 times more powerful than its closest rival GPT-3, developed by the U.S. firm OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/meet-wu-dao-2-0-the-chinese-ai-model-making-the-west-sweat\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Developed by the government-funded Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence and unveiled last week, Wu Dao 2.0 appears to be among the world&#39;s most sophisticated AI language models: allegedly x10 more powerful than OpenAI&#39;s GPT-3. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yULPbLV5X8\">https:\/\/t.co\/yULPbLV5X8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; S\u00e9b Krier (@sebkrier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sebkrier\/status\/1402982648331464707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new artificial intelligence model developed by Chinese researchers is performing untold feats with image creation and natural language processing \u2014 making rivals in Europe and the U.S. nervous about falling behind. The model, dubbed Wu Dao 2.0, is able<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103092\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103097,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103092\/revisions\/103097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}