Chinese Scholar Unveils AI Child to Test Path to Human-Level Intelligence
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Chinese scholar Zhu Songchun unveiled an AI "child" named Tong Tong at a Beijing AI exhibition. Her name translates to "Little Girl".
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Tong Tong is designed to mimic human cognition - understanding tasks, discerning right from wrong, expressing attitudes.
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She is meant to help advance artificial general intelligence (AGI) - human-level AI.
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Tong Tong will be used in BIGAI's "Tong Test", proposed last year to assess how close an AI system is to AGI over 5 dimensions.
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Zhu believes that to reach AGI, AI entities must comprehend the real world and possess a wide range of skills - which Tong Tong will help test.