China's Tech Giant Baidu Launches ERNIE Bot, a ChatGPT-style language model
Science Express March 17, 2023
On March 16th, Baidu, China's tech giant, launched the highly anticipated ERNIE Bot, a multi-modular large language model comparable to ChatGPT. During the press conference, Baidu founder Robin Li presented its five major capabilities, including creative writing, commercial copywriting, mathematical logic deduction, Chinese language comprehension, and multimodal generation.
To demonstrate one of its more practical skills and showcase its mastery of the Chinese language, ERNIE was instructed to generate answers in Sichuan dialect, which elicited chuckles from the audience. In another demonstration, the bot generated a cyberpunk-style poster for the World Intelligent Transportation Conference 2023 in a matter of seconds, upon request.
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