{"id":64968,"date":"2024-07-10T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=64968"},"modified":"2024-07-10T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T23:19:19","slug":"singing-presidents-a-triumph-of-chinese-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=64968","title":{"rendered":"Singing Presidents (a triumph of Chinese AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wasn\u2019t on my 2024 Bingo Card:<\/p>\n<p>US Lawmakers: We need to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24NVDA&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$NVDA<\/a> GPUs sales into China, or else they will lead in AI and boost their military.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese social meme accounts burns through valuable Huawei Ascend compute, to make Biden and Trump sing Chinese folk songs about\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T03DwIZKp4\">pic.twitter.com\/T03DwIZKp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcel M\u00fcnch (@_mm85) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_mm85\/status\/1810630910057865279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They mouth such maudlin sentiments as \"I love you, China\", \"I shed tears for you\", \"dear mother\", etc.,etc.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, their pronunciation sounds like that of native speakers, except for when they say \"Zh\u014dnggu\u00f3 \u4e2d\u56fd\" (\"China\").\u00a0 The vowel of the first syllable is \"off\", and the initial of the second syllable seems garbled \/ swallowed.\u00a0 They need to go back to first year for that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to ChatGPT writes VHM\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=58111\" rel=\"bookmark\">ChatGPT writes VHM<\/a>\" (2\/28\/23)<\/li>\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to Welcome to China\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=10884\" rel=\"bookmark\">Welcome to China<\/a>\" (3\/10\/14)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Thanks to Don Keyser]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn\u2019t on my 2024 Bingo Card: US Lawmakers: We need to ban $NVDA GPUs sales into China, or else they will lead in AI and boost their military. Chinese social meme accounts burns through valuable Huawei Ascend compute, to make Biden and Trump sing Chinese folk songs about\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/T03DwIZKp4 \u2014 Marcel M\u00fcnch (@_mm85) July 9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-pronunciation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64996,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64968\/revisions\/64996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}