Baidu has yet to announce a launch date for ‘Ernie Bot’, although the company says it will conduct internal testing next month.
China’s search engine giant Baidu said on Tuesday it is developing an AI-powered chatbot, as tech giants flock to the success of ChatGPT, a hugely popular language app. popularity has created a gold rush in artificial intelligence technology.
ChatGPT, created by San Francisco-based OpenAI, has made headlines with its ability to write essays, poems or code on demand within seconds, sparking widespread fears of fraud or becoming a profession. should be outdated.
Microsoft last month said it was investing billions of dollars in the company, and Google this week said it was working with a rival called Bard.
While a number of smaller Chinese companies have already started developing a rival to the app, Baidu is by far the biggest to jump in, although the company hasn’t announced a launch date for the service. , named “Ernie Bot”. “.
A spokesperson for the company told AFP it was “likely to complete internal testing in March before making the chatbot available to the public”.
Shares of Baidu jumped more than 15% following the announcement.
The Chinese tech giant has diversified in recent years into the field of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and autonomous driving technologies as advertising revenue remains sluggish in the face of tighter regulatory scrutiny.
Baidu is expected to integrate the Ernie Bot into its main search service, allowing users to get conversational answers to their questions. Search Results instead of getting a linked list—similar to the experience using ChatGPT.
No barriers to creating AI-synthesized text, audio and video, the possibility of abuse in identity theft, financial fraud and its tarnished reputation has caused global alarm.
Consulting group Eurasia has called AI tools “weapons of mass disruption”.
And Beijing has warned that deepfakes — which use technology similar to chatbots to create chillingly accurate digital doppelgangers — pose a “danger to national security and social stability”.
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