Chinese Scientist Unveils Tong Tong, World's First Virtual AI Child With Emotions and Intellect
• Chinese scientist Zhu Songchun unveiled Tong Tong, the world's first virtual AI child, at an exhibition in Beijing • Tong Tong can independently assign herself tasks like cleaning up spills and straightening crooked picture frames • She has emotions, intellect, and the capability for autonomous learning like a 3-4 year old child • Zhu introduced the Tong Test to comprehensively assess AI across dimensions like vision, language, cognition, motion and learning • The goal is to develop general AI that can seamlessly integrate into human environments and serve society