Baidu has confirmed the launch of its own AI chatbot. ernie robot. According to the company called “China Google”, Internal testing of the project should be completed by March before it goes public.
New chatbot should become the Chinese alternative to the popular one ChatGPT by OpenAI and Google’s recently announced Bard AI. Both services from US companies are not officially available in China.
Ernie stands for “Enhaced Representation via Knowledge Integration” (Enhanced representation through knowledge integration in free translation). Described as a “great language model”, the project started in 2019.
According to Baidu, chatbot AI distinguishes itself from competitors due to integration with “intensive data information”. With this, the service has “extraordinary insight and the ability to create language and text for an image.”
agency resources Reuters It states that Ernie Bot should initially be released as a standalone app. Then, Baidu will gradually add it to the search engine itself, by including the results generated by the chatbot in searches.
Earlier, Haifeng Wang, the brand’s chief technology officer, emphasized the importance of deep learning as the core of artificial intelligence. There is “growing potential” for managers, and creative skills will add to important and complex tasks.
Stock growth
After the Ernie Bot announcement, Baidu shares rose more than 15% on the Hong Kong stock market. Shares were trading at HK$162.50 early Tuesday morning (7th) in Asia.
According to analysts, this was the biggest increase in the company’s shares since February 2022. It is clear that the appreciation is related to speculative bets on new technology.
Source: Tec Mundo
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