“ChinAI #248: XiaoIce, where do we go from here?” by Jeffrey Ding

Greetings from a world where… losers are always in the wrong [成王败寇] …As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors). Feature Translation: XiaoIce Peerless (part 2) Context: Last week, our deep history on Xiaoice, China's most popular chatbot, ended with a cliffhanger: how will it survive in a ChatGPT world of large language models? Let's find out by translating the second half of Caixian Chen and Zibo Dong's excellent piece on Xiaoice, published in AItechtalk[AI科技评论], a portal under Leiphone. Key Takeaways: In July 2020, shortly after OpenAI releases GPT-3, Microsoft spins off Xiaoice as an independent company. Li Di, who incubated Xiaoice while he was at Microsoft's Bing division, will be the CEO. It's [...] --- First published: December 18th, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-248-xiaoice-where-do-we-go --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Narrations of the ChinAI Newsletter by Jeffrey Ding. China is becoming an indispensable part of the global AI landscape. Alongside the rise of China’s AI capabilities, a surge of Chinese writing and scholarship on AI-related topics is shedding light on a range of fascinating topics, including: China’s grand strategy for advanced technology like AI, the characteristics of key Chinese AI actors (e.g. companies and individual thinkers), and the ethical implications of AI development. While traditional media and China specialists can provide important insights on these questions through on-the-ground reporting and extensive background knowledge, ChinAI takes a different approach: it bets on the proposition that for many of these issues, the people with the most knowledge and insight are Chinese people themselves who are sharing their insights in Chinese. Through translating articles and documents from government departments, think tanks, traditional media, and newer forms of “self-media,” etc., ChinAI provides a unique look into the intersection between a country that is changing the world and a technology that is doing the same.