Wu Dao 2.0

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) is known for its inventions on artificial intelligence and raining innovations that advance the modern world more technologically. BAAI holds a long history of its devotion to neo-AI developments, data sharing, and open source besides supporting long term fundamental research in AI.

In recent days, BAAI has announced the invention of Wu Dao 2.0.

Taking a Close Look at Wu Dao 2.0

Wu Dao 2.0 is a multimodal AI, demonstrating its capabilities in deciphering and generating discernible texts from indiscernible human prose. Wu Dao 2.0 is imbued with 1.75 trillion parameters and it learns from historical training data.

Jack Clark, an Open AI policy director, has labelled its model diffusion and is deemed as the latest and most avant-garde example of a model diffusion system or GPT-3 style artificial intelligence models.

Wu Dao 2.0, which is conceived as a sequel of its previous version 1.0, is built on an open-source system. This open-source system is akin to Google’s FastMoe. Wu Dao 2.0, according to BAAI, is trained with 4.9 terabytes of Chinese and English images and texts both on supercomputers and GPUs.

Wu Dao 2.0 is a flexible and assertively new age multimodal that can perform natural language processing, image recognition, text generation, and image generation. Such features make it capable of writing poems and prose both in traditional Chinese and English besides performing the tasks of image recognition and image interpretation. Reportedly, Wu Dao 2.0 has been trained to the three-dimensional structures of protein.

The AI Nationalism with Wu Dao 2.0

It is a truth well acknowledged that every AI invention or a breakthrough becomes a representative of the culture of the nation it originates in. Such a phenomenon can also term AI nationalism. The release of Wu - Dao 2.0 has surged the tech nationalism in China and parts of the Eurozone.

While Wu Dao 2.0 is in alignment with the new rules imposed on tech exports in China last November, the U.S. government claims its lack of alignment with U.S. values. Experts speculate that Wu - Dao 2.0 can be an initiative to intervene in US technology research affairs.

Reportedly, China is positioned ahead of U.S. in matters of technological developments and innovations. One of the primary reasons being funding. To surpass the lacking, the U.S. Senate panel has approved the Endless Frontier Act for the pending legislation that would mean the authorizations of more than $110 billion for basic and advanced technological research.