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“ChinAI #242: The Long Road to Speech AI (part 2)” by Jeffrey Ding

Oct 30, 2023

Exploring the impact of Chinese AI researchers at CLSP, from Peng Xu's journey to large language models to the entrepreneurial success of voice interaction technology developers. Dive into the evolution of tech innovations, funding struggles, and China's involvement in international AI governance certification.

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Chinese AI researchers at CLSP contributed to speech recognition and large language models, leading to advancements in mainstream voice assistants and hardware development.

China is progressing in AI safety governance with regulations, research on AI safety techniques, and plans for an international AI organization to ensure compliance with risk management standards.

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Evolution of Chinese AI Researchers

Chinese AI researchers from Johns Hopkins University's CLSP like Guo Guachen and Shifei Li have made significant contributions to speech recognition and large language models. Guo Guachen, after studying at CLSP, worked on speech recognition systems involving hotword detection later implemented in mainstream voice assistants. Shifei Li's Mobvoi integrated technology with WeChat and expanded into hardware development, growing to over 230 employees by 2015. Ye Yun's Minimax also excelled in large language models, performing well in benchmarks.

Introduction

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The Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology and Entrepreneurial Success

2min

Exploring the Journey of Tech Innovations and Funding Struggles

3min

International AI Governance Certification and China's Participation in UK AI Summit

2min

Subtitle: JHU in the 1990s to large language models in the 2020s.

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Feature Translation: The Road to Speech AI (part 2)

Context: Last week, we began reading about Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), and some of the Chinese AI researchers connected to the center. We heard stories about Peng Xu, who got his PhD at CLSP, worked at Google, and now works on large language models as a VP of Ant Group (Alibaba affiliate). We learned about Zhifei Li, who graduated from CLSP five years after Peng Xu, made important [...]

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First published:
October 30th, 2023

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-242-the-long-road-to-speech

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