The Chinese name of Token seems to have finally been decided! Today, the Chinese Government website reposted an article from the People's Daily citing the National Data Administration, which showed that our daily average word usage exceeded 140 trillion. The amount of data of 140 trillion is exaggerated, but the Chinese name of Token behind this news is more interesting, and it seems to calm the recent controversy in the industry about the Chinese name of Token.
This also means that the Chinese name of Token is officially designated as "Ci Yuan".
The data released by the National Data Bureau, released by the People's Daily, forwarded by the Chinese Government website, and dual-released by official government agencies and official media, the Chinese name of Token has been determined.
What triggered this round of naming controversy was the translation of "Moyuan" proposed by scholar Yang Bin in an article published by Tencent Research Institute. One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and AI tycoons from all walks of life gave their favorite answers on social platforms and industry groups. Soon, the name "Zhiyuan" surfaced and quickly gained widespread recognition.
You Yang, young professor and president of the National University of Singapore and founder of Luchen Technology:
"Token is called 'Zhiyuan' in Chinese. I don't know if the founder of 'Xin Zhiyuan' traveled back in time and space."
Hu Yilin, a free scholar and former associate professor of the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University:
"It's really not as good as 'Zhiyuan'. The unit of a computer is a byte, and Token is the calculation unit of human intelligence. Token is not a concept of general computing, but a concept of 'universal intelligence'. 'Zhi' is more relevant than 'Tong'."
Wang Xiaochuan, founder of Baichuan Intelligence:
"It's nice to call it 'Zhiyuan'."
Chen Xu, a senior open source expert:
"I have proposed various x-yuan in the past few days, and I feel that Zhiyuan can impress me and meet the requirements of Xindaya."
The large-scale discussion triggered by this also included some neat players.
But in the end, the official decision was made to call it "Ciyuan"!
According to People's Daily Online's explanation, "word element" is the smallest unit for AI to understand human language. The units segmented by token are sometimes characters, sometimes words, and词can better cover this range.
