Artificial general intelligence (AGI) will likely become a reality in the coming years, said the Chinese research team behind MOSS, China's first publicly unveiled ChatGPT-like model.

Named after the intelligent quantum computer that controls the space station in the blockbuster Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth II, MOSS is a conversational large-scale language model developed by a research team from Fudan University.

Since it was made available for public testing on Feb 20, the ChatGPT-like chatbot has become one of the hottest topics on various Chinese social media platforms. MOSS will be made open source by the end of March.

While it is still undergoing intensive internal testing and optimization, expectations for the chatbot's capabilities are high, with many wondering if MOSS can one day perform the same tasks the AGI featured in the movie did.

"I'm very optimistic that it will be able to," said Qiu Xipeng, a professor from Fudan's School of Computer Science and the leader of the research team behind MOSS.