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Al Bawaba
07-04-2025
- Al Bawaba
China unveils first AI child: throws tantrums and speaks like a real child
Published April 7th, 2025 - 06:28 GMT ALBAWABA - The Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), an innovative research and development non-profit organization affiliated with Peking University, Tsinghua University, and other leading academic institutions in China, has revealed a groundbreaking AI humanoid child. The AI child behaves like a real 6-year-old, throws tantrums, and can speak and negotiate. China unveiled TongTong 2.0 The Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) has successfully developed and unveiled the innovative TongTong 2.0, a humanoid artificial intelligence (AI) system that exhibits the abilities and traits of a real 5- to 6-year-old 2.0 was announced and revealed at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) in Beijing. The innovative humanoid child can negotiate, throw tantrums, speak, and ask to delay tasks, just like a real 5- or 6-year-old boy or girl. The new TongTong 2.0 highlights significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), open-source achievements, and other technological progress made by China. The new TongTong 2.0 humanoid child can clean toys, wipe stains, take off its shoes, and organize objects. (Shutterstock) It is worth noting that TongTong was originally introduced in 2024 with simpler capabilities. The new version now advances in its language usage, development, movement, learning, emotions, and overall interactions. The new TongTong 2.0 humanoid child can clean toys, wipe stains, take off its shoes, and organize objects. Remarkably, when TongTong 2.0 was told to sleep and complete some tasks upon its reveal, it immediately refused and asked for rewards in exchange for finishing the tasks, just like real children do in such cases. Also Read Meet the AI robot from UAE that picks strawberries © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
South China Morning Post
01-04-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
‘Giving machines a heart': China urged to dig deeper in AI development
China should address the risks of 'chaotic investment' in artificial intelligence and seek breakthroughs at the theoretical and philosophical level, rather than following Western paths to developing the technology, according to a leading Chinese AI scientist. Advertisement Zhu Songchun , director of the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence, said on Saturday there was still a 'severely inadequate understanding' of the technology among government agencies, the public and the media, making it difficult to guide innovation and strategic planning. He made the remarks at the Zhongguancun Forum , a state-backed tech event held each year in Beijing. Zhu, who is also dean of Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence, noted that while many AI institutes had been established in China in recent years, many of them were led by people with no background in artificial intelligence In recent years, China has doubled down on its AI efforts to foster a high-quality tech talent pool and drive economic recovery. In January, Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek launched a chatbot on par with US rivals such as ChatGPT, stunning the tech world. Advertisement According to Zhu, China's AI innovations should dig deeper into the theory and philosophy behind the technology. 'The technological innovation of artificial intelligence can be divided into five levels, structured like an iceberg,' he said.
