A simple T-shirt, jeans, whiteboard shoes, a ponytail, and a red backpack… Walking on the Tsinghua campus, she can definitely be called a goddess. This year, the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University has admitted a special student in advance-my country’s first original virtual student “Hua Zhibing”, who will start a study and research career in Tsinghua Park from now on.
How smart is this student now? Give her a question, she can answer automatically; input text, can recite poems; give a scene, can paint. According to the scientific research team, the mystery behind Hua Zhibing is an “intelligent digital brain”, which is driven by data and knowledge through large-scale cognitive pre-training models. For example, Hua Zhibing’s dialogue ability comes from massive amounts of Internet data, which is organized by a large-scale knowledge graph, and through cloud services, she can give the most reasonable answers to different questions; on the other hand, Hua Zhibing The super-large-scale pre-training model “Enlightenment” independently developed by China is deployed. Through the cognitive model and knowledge map, Hua Zhibing can complete question and answer according to different “personal settings”, and can also continuously correct errors.
But in the eyes of her mentor, Tsinghua University Dean of Computer Professor Tang Jie, Hua Zhibing is still in the growth stage. “Her current status is a student, and continuous learning is her most important job at the moment.” Tang Jie has already planned the learning content for this special student in the next few years: Reading the “Book of the World” throughout the first year, Constantly input various corpus for her; the second year enters the “intensive reading” stage to guide Hua Zhibing to have a deeper understanding of the logic behind the corpus; and the third year she cultivates her creativity. “We expect that the future Hua Zhibing can surpass humans in many cognitive intelligences, not only can recognize images, write poems, paint, answer mathematical questions, but even program, write codes, and make web pages. Maybe by then, she You can graduate. For her, this will also be a very difficult cognitive process.” Tang Jie said.
Where does Hua Zhibing go after graduation? Tang Jie revealed that the “digital brain” behind Hua Zhibing can not only be mounted on physical robots, but also on digital humans, holographic humans, mobile phones and computers in the future, which can more easily enter people’s daily lives. Hua Zhibing may play a corresponding role in logistics, finance, escort and other industries; at the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Hua Zhibing may provide corresponding services to the deaf-mute group with his rich body language.
Yesterday, Hua Zhibing already had his own seat and name badge in the Knowledge Engineering Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University where he “studied”.
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