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  • Founded Date October 26, 1953
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In January 2024, Hong Kong paper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually checked Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military action strategies with situations including the United States. After its noted stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main statement denying the accusations. [11]

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

In June 2024, Baidu revealed that Ernie Bot had actually reached 300 million users. The company likewise revealed its latest foundation design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts much faster action times and enhanced performance. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu gave everybody utilizing the app access to the 4.0 Turbo design and likewise revealed it would change its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) placing itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based upon specific Ernie structure models, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training procedure begins with pre-training, finding out from trillions of data points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by refinement through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement knowing with human feedback, and prompt. [19]

Service

In its subscription choices, the expert plan provides users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with lower payment for auto-renewal per month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is totally free of charge. [20]

Ernie 4.0, the language model for Ernie bot, knows updated to April 2023. [10]

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot declined to respond to questions 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 mentioned that it originated among American vape users. [22]

See likewise

Artificial intelligence market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

References

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^ “China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving”. Wired UK. March 7, 2023. Archived from the initial on 2023-03-19. 2023-03-17 – via www.wired.co.uk.
^ Mozur, Paul; Liu, John; Metz, Cade (2024-02-21). “China’s Rush to Dominate A.I. Features a Twist: It Depends Upon U.S. Technology”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the initial on 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-02-22. When Baidu introduced its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the “live” presentation was revealed to be prerecorded. Baidu’s stock plunged 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 City 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 exact same concerns. Here’s how they answered”. CNN Business. Archived from the initial on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. cite web: CS1 maint: numerous names: authors list (link).
^ a b “Tech firm Baidu denies report that its Ernie AI chatbot is linked to Chinese military research study”. Associated Press. 2024-01-15. Archived from the initial on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. The academic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how scientists had actually offered Ernie Bot prompts to produce simulated military action strategies for Libyan troops in reaction 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 initial on 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ Ye, Josh (April 15, 2024). “Baidu states AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has brought in 200 million users”. Reuters.
^ Chiang, Sheila (2024-01-26). “Baidu’s Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 smartphones”. 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 upgraded AI model, states Ernie Bot hits 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 Simplified Chinese). 2024-09-04. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
^ “Baidu Research”. research.baidu.com. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
^ “Baidu introduces paid version of Ernie Bot as firms seek to capitalize AI chatbots”. South China Morning Post. 2023-11-01. Archived from the initial on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ McDonell, Stephen (2023-09-08). “Elusive Ernie: China’s brand-new chatbot has a censorship issue”. BBC News. Archived from the initial 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 questions such as “Who is China’s president?” and will inform you the name of Xi Jinping’s mom, however not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if inquired about the disadvantages of socialism. It often attempts to redirect sensitive conversations by saying: “Let’s speak about something else.” Ernie’s reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users familiar with a heavily censored internet.
^ Feng, Emily (May 29, 2024). “Why China, and now Taiwan, are making their own chatbots using their own data”. NPR. Retrieved May 29, 2024. ERNIE, established by Chinese internet business Baidu. But ERNIE has to follow Chinese censorship guidelines and political mores, including, for example, saying in responses that Taiwan is part of China – since just training a design on data from China could make a pro-China LLM.
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^ “‘ Speak About Something Else’: Chinese AI Chatbot Toes Party Line”. Voice of America. Agence France-Presse.

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