A look at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, a government-sponsored research lab, and its work on a new language model similar to GPT-3
China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up ground. Tweets: @lsenews , @willknight , and @wired Tweets: LSE / @lsenews : “Innovation by its very nature is sort of uncertain, and perhaps nowhere more so than in AI.” @LSEManagement's Professor Noam Yuchtman speaks to @wired's @willknight. https://www.wired.com/... Will Knight / @willknight : The Chinese government is funding a competitor to GPT-3, which it plans to use as a virtual administrative assistant. “This is a big project,” says Ji-Rong Wen, the scientist leading the effort. “It takes a lot of computing infrastructure and money.” https://www.wired.com/... @wired : China produces as many artificial intelligence researchers as the US, but it lags in key fields like machine learning. The government hopes to make up ground. https://www.wired.com/...