Meet China's First AI-Powered Virtual University Student

Hua Zhibing officially registered and became a student of Beijing's Tsinghua University on Tuesday. Hua Zhibing's appearance, voice and even the music playing in the background of the vlog she introduced herself to the world in were all created using on a record-breaking AI modeling system called Wudao 2.0. It was unveiled at the 2021 Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) Conference on June 1, and, according to its developers, it is the first trillion scale model in China and the largest in the world. Wudao 2.0 is designed to enable machines to think like humans and is reportedly close to passing the Turing test in poetry and couplets creation, text summaries, answering questions and painting. Tsinghua University's newest student will study in the Department of Computer Science and Technology and is expected to grow and learn faster than an average actual person.