The Chinese technology company Baidu announced that its conversational AI project will be ready in March.
‘Generative Pre-Trained Transformer’ ( GPT ) technology is still the go-to for many companies in 2023. Following Google Bard ‘s announcement in response to Microsoft’s plans to include advanced GPT in Bing, it is now the Chinese company Baidu which is enthusiastic about implementing this trend in its products. He calls her ‘Ernie Bot’.
‘Generative Pre-Trained Transformer’ ( GPT ) technology is still the go-to for many companies in 2023. Following Google Bard ‘s announcement in response to Microsoft’s plans to include advanced GPT in Bing, it is now the Chinese company Baidu which is enthusiastic about implementing this trend in its products. He calls her ‘Ernie Bot’.
According to a Reuters report , Baidu plans to wrap up internal tests with ‘Ernie Bot’ in March, showing its rush to keep up with advances from Open AI, Microsoft and Google.
After the announcement, the company’s shares increased in value by 15.3% on the Hong Kong stock market, while it obtained an interesting growth of 11.2% in the United States.
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‘Ernie’, an AI based on language models, began its development in 2019 and Baidu has been able to add various tools with algorithms capable of understanding and generating content in a language as well as creating images from plain text.
In this case, this ‘Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration’ – or ‘Ernie’ for short – will be proposed as a stand-alone application that will gradually begin to merge with the search engine and other services that require interaction. with users through chatbots.
The need for a “own GPT” in China responds to the blockades that the Xi Jinping government exercises on Google, ChatGPT and other Western services. This advance in issues of implementation of a generative AI adds a differential weight in favor of the Asian giant with respect to its forced independence from US services.
Baidu, dubbed the “Chinese Google” in the rest of the world, has invested heavily in AI systems for cloud support, autonomous driving assistance and other technology-based services.