Baidu's Ernie Bot, the company's new AI chatbot, has been unveiled on Thursday, Mar. 16.
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This photo taken on November 6, 2018 shows a man walking past a booth of Baidu at the Light of Internet Expo ahead of the 5th World Internet Conference in Wuzhen in China's eastern Zhejiang province.
This new artificial intelligence model is expected to compete against the popular ChatGPT chatbot. Recently, many Chinese tech firms shared their interests in creating new AI models similar to ChatGPT.
Beijing officials even said that they will support them in their AI-focused endeavors.
Now, Baidu officially introduced a specific AI tech. But, can it compete with ChatGPT?
Baidu's Ernie Bot Unveiled!
According to The Strait Times' latest report, the new Ernie Bot is still imperfect. This means Baidu needs to put on lots of work if it wants the new AI model to compete with ChatGPT.
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A picture shows the logo of Baidu on its headquarter building in Beijing on July 22, 2010. Chinese Internet search giant Baidu said its profits more than doubled in the second quarter, as its customer base widened at the expense of rival Google.
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Baidu only released the imperfect version of Ernie Bot because there's a rising market demand for AI-powered chatbots.
During the demonstration, Ernie Bot was able to write a poem and answer questions. Aside from these, the new Baidu AI chatbot also produced a video and image with prompts.
Although much is still needed to be done with Ernie (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration), this new AI-powered chatbot is still considered the answer of China to ChatGPT.
Baidu said that it will use the new Ernie Bot to revolutionize its search engine technology.
Ernie Bot's Leads to Baidu Share Decrease
Channel News Asia reported that the arrival of the new Ernie Bot was not a good one for Baidu's shares.
When the new AI chatbot was demonstrated, the Chinese tech firm's shares decreased by 10%. Although this is the case, the new Ernie Bot still attracted many interested investors and partners.
Baidu said that they are expecting more than 600 companies to join their new Ernie ecosystem. Chinese state media outlets, as well as a Shaolin temple, already signed up to become the first partners of Ernie Bot.
If you want to learn more about the new AI chatbot of Baidu, you can click this link.
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