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Overview

  • Founded Date June 9, 1995
  • Sectors AI & Machine Learning
  • Posted Jobs 0
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Company Description

South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong paper South China Morning Post reported that a university research study laboratory linked to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually tested Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military action plans with situations involving the United States. After its noted stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made an official statement denying the allegations. [11]

Ernie was integrated for the Chinese launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup. [14] [15]

In June 2024, Baidu announced that Ernie Bot had reached 300 million users. The company likewise revealed its newest foundation model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts faster reaction times and improved efficiency. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu offered everyone using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and also announced it would change its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) positioning itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based upon specific Ernie foundation designs, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process begins with pre-training, gaining from trillions of information points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by improvement through monitored fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, and prompt. [19]

Service

In its subscription options, the professional strategy gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with reduced payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is complimentary of charge. [20]

Ernie 4.0, the language design for Ernie bot, knows upgraded to April 2023. [10]

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese federal government’s censorship routine. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot refused to address concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot specified that it came from amongst American vape users. [22]

See also

Expert system market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

References

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^ Mo, Yelin; Baptista, Eduardo (2023-10-17). “China’s Baidu unveils new Ernie AI version to rival GPT-4″. Reuters. Archived from the original on 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
^ “Baidu’s ChatGPT Rival Launches to Mixed Reviews”. The Wall Street Journal. 16 March 2023. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^ “China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving”. Wired UK. March 7, 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-03-19. Retrieved 2023-03-17 – by means of www.wired.co.uk.
^ Mozur, Paul; Liu, John; Metz, Cade (2024-02-21). “China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Includes a Twist: It Depends Upon U.S. Technology”. The New York City Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-02-22. When Baidu presented its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the “live” presentation was exposed to be prerecorded. Baidu’s stock plummeted 10 percent that day.
^ Toh, Michelle (March 17, 2023). “Baidu stock rebounds after falling dramatically in wake of ChatGPT-style bot demo”.
^ David, Emilia (2023-08-31). “Baidu launches Ernie chatbot after Chinese federal government approval”. The Verge. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
^ Sun, Yu; Wang, Shuohuan; Feng, Shikun; Ding, Siyu; Pang, Chao; Shang, Junyuan; Liu, Jiaxiang; Chen, Xuyi; Zhao, Yanbin (2021-07-05). “ERNIE 3.0: Large-scale Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation”. arXiv:2107.02137 [cs.CL]
^ Che, Chang; Wang, Olivia (2023-07-14). “What Happens When You Ask a Chinese Chatbot About Taiwan?”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
^ a b Gan, Michelle Toh, Nectar (2023-12-16). “We asked GPT-4 and Chinese competing ERNIE the same concerns. Here’s how they answered”. CNN Business. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. mention web: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).
^ a b “Tech firm Baidu rejects report that its Ernie AI chatbot is connected to Chinese military research study”. Associated Press. 2024-01-15. Archived from the initial on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. The scholastic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how scientists had actually provided Ernie Bot prompts to produce simulated military reaction plans for Libyan troops in action to a U.S. military attack.
^ Cheng, Evelyn (2023-12-29). “Baidu states its ChatGPT rival Ernie bot now has more than 100 million users”. CNBC. Archived from the original on 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ Ye, Josh (April 15, 2024). “Baidu states AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has drawn in 200 million users”. Reuters.
^ Chiang, Sheila (2024-01-26). “Baidu’s Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung’s brand-new Galaxy S24 smart devices”. CNBC. Archived from the initial on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
^ Porter, Jon (2024-01-26). “Samsung’s brand-new phones change Google AI with Baidu in China”. The Verge. Archived from the original on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
^ Mo, Liam (June 28, 2024). “Baidu introduces updated AI model, states Ernie Bot strikes 300 mln users”. Reuters. Retrieved June 28, 2024.
^ Ben Jiang (2024-09-04). “Baidu rebrands flagship AI chatbot to stand out from competitors”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
^ “百度推出新搜索文小言”. 第一财经 (in Chinese). 2024-09-04. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
^ “Baidu Research”. research.baidu.com. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
^ “Baidu releases paid variation of Ernie Bot as companies seek to cash in on AI chatbots”. South China Morning Post. 2023-11-01. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ McDonell, Stephen (2023-09-08). “Elusive Ernie: China’s new chatbot has a censorship problem”. BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-09-09. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
^ a b c “Meet Ernie, China’s response to ChatGPT”. The Economist. 3 September 2023. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03. On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is puzzled by concerns such as “Who is China’s president?” and will inform you the name of Xi Jinping’s mother, however not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the disadvantages of socialism. It often tries to redirect delicate conversations by saying: “Let’s speak about something else.” Ernie’s reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users acquainted with a heavily censored web.
^ Feng, Emily (May 29, 2024). “Why China, and now Taiwan, are making their own chatbots using their own information”. NPR. Retrieved May 29, 2024. ERNIE, established by Chinese web business Baidu. But ERNIE needs to follow Chinese censorship rules and political mores, including, for example, saying in answers that Taiwan is part of China – because only training a design on information from China could make a pro-China LLM.
^ Baptista, Eduardo (2023-03-20). “Baidu’s Ernie composes poems but states it has inadequate information on Xi, tests reveal”. Reuters. Archived from the initial on 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
^ “‘ Talk About Something Else’: Chinese AI Chatbot Toes Party Line”. Voice of America. Agence France-Presse.