Beijing General Institute of Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) has developed a virtual AI girl named Tong Tong or Little Girl.

Tong Tong - considered the world's first AI child - exhibits behavior and abilities similar to a 3- or 4-year-old child, understanding and responding to human intentions. This AI girl can automatically clean her room, automatically fix a warped picture frame, find towels and clean up spilled liquids.
In particular, Tong Tong has the ability to independently assign tasks to herself, making a difference compared to large language AI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's Bard. This AI girl has her own emotions, intelligence, self-learning ability and especially autonomy, something never seen in virtual entities before.
To achieve the goal, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - when a machine can think and reason like a human, needs to change the 'parrot model' - imitation through repeated training, coaching and transformation into a 'crow model' with independent reasoning behavior and advanced intelligence driven by value, cause and effect, said Zhu Songchun, president of BIGAI.
The AI baby is a major achievement that marks a major step forward in the research on artificial general intelligence by the Beijing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence over the past two years. With advances in the field of artificial intelligence, "AI girls" like Tong Tong will become more common in the future.