China’s Latest aI Chatbot is Trained On President Xi Jinping’s Political Ideology

HONG KONG (AP) – China’s newest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s teaching, in a plain pointer of the ideological criteria that Chinese AI models need to comply with.

China’s cyberspace academy earlier this week revealed the chatbot trained on Xi Jinping Thought, a teaching which promotes “socialism with Chinese attributes.”

The chatbot was trained on seven databases, 6 of which were mostly related to infotech offered by China’s internet guard dog, the Cyberspace Administration of China, or CAC.

Xi Jinping Thought was the seventh database that the chatbot was trained on, according to a WeChat messaging service post by CAC’s publication about the AI design.

The Xi-trained large language model is the current effort by authorities to spread out the Chinese leader’s ideology and concepts. Students have had to take classes on Xi Jinping Thought in schools, and an app called Study Xi Strong Nation was likewise rolled out in 2019 to allow users to discover and take quizzes about his ideologies.

Xi Jinping Thought – likewise called “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” – is comprised of 14 concepts, including ensuring the absolute power of the Chinese Communist Party, reinforcing national security and socialist worths, as well as improving individuals’s livelihoods and well-being.

The chatbot was created primarily to demonstrate the advancement and practical applications in cybersecurity and IT research study, according to the China Institute of Cybersecurity Affairs, which had released the AI model for internal use.

The AI model would have the ability to create report lays out on topics like AI advancement and performance, according to the CAC publication’s WeChat post.

“Users can choose different categories of knowledge bases for intelligent concern and answer. The professionalism and authority of the corpus guarantee the professionalism of the produced content,” the post stated.

The AI design will likewise have the ability to create reports, sum up info and supply translations in Chinese or English for users who have access to it.

However, it’s not clear if the Xi-trained chatbot will be suggested for public usage.

The unveiling of the chatbot comes as the U.S. and China are locked in a race for AI supremacy.

Though San Francisco-based OpenAI’s generative AI model ChatGPT has been extensively credited as one of the most important developments in the field, China too has aspirations to end up being the worldwide leader in AI by 2030.

China’s access to a population of 1.4 billion also enables the country to amass chests of data to train systems for facial acknowledgment and autonomous driving.

Technology firms such as and Baidu have actually currently rolled out primarily Chinese-language AI designs similar to ChatGPT for public and industrial use.

However, these AI designs tend to be more restricted as they have to comply with China’s stringent censorship guidelines. This indicates that Chinese AI designs will typically not address any politically delicate concerns positioned to them.