{"id":123741,"date":"2021-06-12T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazing-new-chinese-a-i-powered-language-model-wu-dao-2-0-unveiled"},"modified":"2021-06-12T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T16:23:00","slug":"amazing-new-chinese-a-i-powered-language-model-wu-dao-2-0-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazing-new-chinese-a-i-powered-language-model-wu-dao-2-0-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Amazing New Chinese A.I.-Powered Language Model Wu Dao 2.0 Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BgoamVdkzmQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earlier this month, Chinese artificial intelligence (A.I.) researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) unveiled Wu Dao 2.0, the world\u2019s biggest natural language processing (NLP) model. And it\u2019s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>NLP is a branch of A.I. research that aims to give computers the ability to understand text and spoken words and respond to them in much the same way human beings can.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the San Francisco\u2013based nonprofit A.I. research laboratory OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/openais-gigantic-gpt-3-hints-at-the-limits-of-language-models-for-ai\/\">wowed the world<\/a> when it released its GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) language model. GPT-3 is a 175 billion\u2013parameter deep learning model trained on text datasets with hundreds of billions of words. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/openais-gigantic-gpt-3-hints-at-the-limits-of-language-models-for-ai\/\">parameter<\/a> is a calculation in a neural network that shapes the model\u2019s data by assigning to each chunk a greater or lesser weighting, thus providing the neural network a learned perspective on the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort. Earlier this month, Chinese artificial intelligence (A.I.) researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) unveiled Wu Dao 2.0, the world\u2019s biggest natural language processing (NLP) model. And it\u2019s a big deal. NLP is a branch of A.I. research that aims to give computers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}