Award-winning AI scientist who left US for China creates world’s first AI child in Beijing


A groundbreaking AI entity has been unveiled at an exhibition by the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence. Called Little Girl, or Tong Tong, she can assign herself tasks, show human emotion and explore her environment. — SCMP

Science fiction has now become reality with the creation of Tong Tong, a girl who is the world’s first virtual artificial intelligence (AI) entity, developed by Chinese scientists.

Affectionately named Little Girl, or Tong Tong in Chinese, the groundbreaking AI was unveiled at the Frontiers of General Artificial Intelligence Technology Exhibition held in Beijing on January 28-29, under the auspices of the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI).

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