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In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that a university research study laboratory connected to individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) had checked Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for plans with situations involving the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main declaration rejecting the claims. [11]

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

In June 2024, Baidu announced that Ernie Bot had actually reached 300 million users. The business also unveiled its latest structure model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts much faster action times and enhanced performance. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu provided everybody using the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and likewise revealed it would alter 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 structure models, including Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process begins from pre-training, gaining from trillions of information points and billions of knowledge pieces. This was followed by improvement through supervised fine-tuning, support learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its membership options, the expert plan gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with lower payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot is subject to the Chinese federal government’s censorship regime. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with reporters, Ernie Bot refused to respond to concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong demonstrations. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot mentioned 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 initial 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 initial on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
^ “China’s ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving”. Wired UK. March 7, 2023. Archived from the initial 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. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology”. The New York 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 sharply in wake of ChatGPT-style bot demo”.
^ David, Emilia (2023-08-31). “Baidu introduces 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 exact same concerns. Here’s how they answered”. CNN Business. Archived from the initial on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. mention web: CS1 maint: several names: authors list (link).
^ a b “Tech company Baidu denies report that its Ernie AI chatbot is linked to Chinese military research study”. Associated Press. 2024-01-15. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. The academic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how researchers had actually provided Ernie Bot triggers to create simulated military reaction plans for Libyan soldiers in response to a U.S. military attack.
^ Cheng, Evelyn (2023-12-29). “Baidu says 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 says AI chatbot ‘Ernie Bot’ has attracted 200 million users”. Reuters.
^ Chiang, Sheila (2024-01-26). “Baidu’s Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung’s 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 launches updated AI design, says 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 releases paid variation of Ernie Bot as firms aim to capitalize 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 tell you the name of Xi Jinping’s mom, but not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the downsides of socialism. It typically tries to reroute delicate discussions by saying: “Let’s discuss 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, developed by Chinese web company Baidu. But ERNIE needs to follow Chinese censorship guidelines and political mores, including, for example, stating in responses that Taiwan is part of China – since only training a design on information from China could make a pro-China LLM.
^ Baptista, Eduardo (2023-03-20). “Baidu’s Ernie writes poems but says it has insufficient info on Xi, tests show”. 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.

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