Taiwan's New AI & China's Super Solar Farm

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I’m Nancy Sun. And I’m Jacob Ingram. Today’s stories… Taiwan’s new AI, and the world’s largest solar power farm. And in today’s Tasty Tidbit…how long is your DNA? Let’s check it out. ________________________________ 台灣新AI超越ChatGPT-4 Taiwan's New AI Beats ChatGPT-4 in Traditional Chinese AI, or Artificial Intelligence (人工智慧), is a popular topic these days. Many people are talking about it. AI is a kind of smart computer. It can learn and do things like a human. For example, AI can help us find information, translate languages (翻譯語言), and even play games. Many companies are making AI to help us in our daily lives. Taiwan has a new large language model (大型語言模型) that is better than ChatGPT-4 for traditional Chinese! It's called the Taiwan Mixture of Experts, or TAME. TAME was trained using a supercomputer (超級電腦) in Kaohsiung called Taipei-1. It learned from almost 500 billion (五千億) pieces of information from different fields. On its first try, TAME scored better than 89% of people taking Taiwan's bar exam. 在第一次測驗時，TAME的成績比百分之八十九考取律師資格的人還要好。 This exam is very hard and is for becoming a lawyer (律師)! It also passed exams for university, traditional Chinese medicine (中醫), tour guides (導遊), and drivers. In 39 different tests with almost 3,000 questions, TAME was the best. It was 9.3% better than ChatGPT-4! Making TAME took 350,000 hours of GPU work and 1,285 hours of work by 31 engineers. TAME的製造，花了35萬個GPU小時，外加31位工程師辛苦工作了1285個小時。 Andrew Hsiao from Pegatron (和碩) said TAME is special because it is made for Taiwan and can be used in different industries (產業). Even though it was just released last week, companies can adjust it (調整它) to see if it fits their needs. This is a big step for AI in Taiwan! ________________________________ 中國新推出的 超級光電場 China's New Super Solar Farm Solar energy (太陽能) is power that comes from the sun. It is a clean and renewable (可再生的) source of energy. Solar panels (太陽能板) catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Using solar energy helps reduce pollution and protects the environment. 使用太陽能可以減少污染，保護環境。 China has switched on the world's largest solar farm (太陽能電場)! It's called the Midong PV farm and is located in Urumqi, Xinjiang. 它叫做米東光伏電場，位於新疆烏魯木齊。 This solar farm can produce 3.5 gigawatts (吉瓦) of power, making it the biggest in the world. Before this, the largest solar park was a 2.2 gigawatt facility started in 2020. The Midong project cost 15.45 billion Chinese Yuan (人民幣) to complete. The solar farm has over 5.26 million special solar panels that can produce a lot of electricity. To hold these panels, they installed 1.23 million supporting piles (支撐柱). They also built five stations to boost the power and over 208 kilometers of transmission lines to connect the solar farm to the main power grid. 他們還建了五個增壓站和超過208公里的傳輸線來連接到主電網。 China Green Development Group (中國綠髮投資集團), which was established in December 2020, is behind this project. CGDG is a big energy investment company (能源投資公司) under the Chinese government. Their goal is to create more than 20 gigawatts of renewable energy by the end of 2024. ________________________________ So, in today’s News Bites… Taiwan has a new large language model that is better than ChatGPT-4 for traditional Chinese! It's called the Taiwan Mixture of Experts, or TAME. TAME was trained using a supercomputer in Kaohsiung called Taipei-1. ________________________________ And, China has switched on the world's largest solar farm! It's called the Midong PV farm and is located in Urumqi, Xinjiang. This solar farm can produce 3.5 gigawatts of power, making it the biggest in the world. ________________________________ 趣味小點 Tasty Tidbit Did you know that if you took all the DNA from your body and stretched it out, it would reach the moon and back almost 150,000 times? That's super long! To fit inside our cells, DNA is tightly wrapped into tiny structures called chromosomes. This is the same for all living things, from insects to elephants. If you have a fun fact, a joke, or interesting news you’d like to share with us, record your message and send us your Tasty Tidbit to [e-mail], and you might hear it at the end of an episode! We'll see you next time for an exciting new episode of News Bites!