Ernie Bot: After the massive success of OpenAI's ChatGPT, China's Baidu on Thursday unveiled its AI-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot.
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The company's Ernie bot is based off its AI-driven deep learning model, Ernie - short for "Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration".
Baidu's bot, whose name comes from Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration, will be open to some users with invitation codes starting Thursday, reported New York Times.
The presentation unveiled a flurry of AI tools for its email, collaboration and cloud software.
Ernie can carry out mathematical calculations, speak in Chinese dialects and generate a video and image with text prompts.
China's chatbots "cannot approach the level of ChatGPT," Xu Chenggang, a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions told New York Times. He added that China's strict censorship rules could undermine the quality of data and hamstring the development of chatbots. "If there are restrictions everywhere in the setup of your algorithms, of course, its ability will be restricted," he said.
