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“ChinAI #250: LLMs summarize China’s 2023 in one word” by Jeffrey Ding

Jan 15, 2024

Jeff Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, discusses how language models summarize China's 2023, hottest internet events, college graduate employment, and generative AI. The podcast also explores the decline in American students studying Chinese and the Chinese approach to maintenance management.

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Quick takeaways

The grim employment outlook for China's college graduates in 2023 led to varied recommendations from AI models, with Chat GPT suggesting the civil service exam, Erniebot advocating for employment, and Google's Bard recommending the post-grad entrance exam.

Chinese and international AI models had differing perspectives on China's 2023, with Chat GPT and Bard using the word 'change' while most Chinese models described the year as 'stable'. Additionally, the models had varied responses to internet events, with Ten-sense Hanyuan mentioning luck obsession and Chat GPT focusing on small developments in Chinese internet companies.

Deep dives

Grim employment outlook for China's college graduates in 2023

One of the biggest storylines in 2023 was the grim employment outlook for China's 11.5 million college graduates. Chat GPT suggested that graduates should take the civil service exam, while Erniebot advocated for the employment route and Google's Bard recommended the post-grad entrance exam path. The remaining three models refused to answer.

Summarizing China's 2023 and Analyzing Language Model Responses

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Decline in American Students Studying Chinese and Chinese Approach to Maintenance

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Feature Translation: Large Models, Please Respond to 2023

Context: If you had to sum up China's 2023 in one word, what would it be? What were the hottest Internet events of 2023? What should recent college grads do next? Should I buy a house? These are some of the questions Tingting Cao, for Meiri Renwu [每日人物], asked six large language models — ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and four Chinese LLMs ((link to original Chinese). Their responses give some insights into differences among the models as well as a slice-of-life perspective on the hot topics of China's 2023.

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First published:
January 15th, 2024

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-250-llms-summarize-chinas

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