China is testing a new large language model (LLM) and conversational AI that will, among other things, allow the country’s citizens to ask President Xi Jinping how to be better socialists. The country’s Cyberspace Research Institute recently announced the chatbot is being tested internally.
The state agency organized a team of experts to develop the chatbot, which was trained using the data from its Cyberspace Research Database. But it’s not just a “What would President Xi do” model. The corpus of information used to train the model also includes “seven major Internet information professional knowledge bases.”
