Chinese search engine Baidu on Monday shared pre-recorded movies of its AI-powered chatbot Ernie summarising monetary statements and producing powerpoint shows, amongst different industry-focused capabilities.
According to photographs shared by a Baidu spokesperson in a media-facing group on WeChat, China’s most generally used messaging service, the Chinese chatbot has a wider vary of expertise than beforehand displayed when it was launched virtually two weeks in the past.
Back then the ChatGPT-like product was proven to be competent at producing pictures with textual content prompts, composing poetry and producing audio in Chinese dialects.
The movies shared on Monday present the chatbot, powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI), producing journey itineraries and digital, human-like livestreamers that may promote merchandise utilizing scripts tailor-made to the consumer’s wants.
These movies had been from a closed-door assembly hosted by Baidu’s AI Cloud division for the primary batch of corporations which can be testing an industry-focused model of the chatbot.
The assembly was initially meant to be a livestreamed product launch open to the media and public, however the format was modified to prioritise the “strong demand” from over 120,000 corporations that had utilized to check the Ernie bot, the corporate stated in an announcement on Monday morning, including this could be the primary of many closed-door conferences.
The change, nevertheless, brought about Baidu’s Hong Kong-listed shares to fall as a lot as 4.5 p.c on Monday morning.
More corporations will be capable of signal as much as take a look at the industry-focused model of the Ernie bot beginning on March 31, whereas the common model of the app stays open for testing to customers fortunate sufficient to get invite codes.
Tests performed by Reuters present that the common model has a very good command of the Chinese language however produces factual errors and avoids answering political questions.
Ernie bot, to this point China’s closest reply to US-developed ChatGPT, was launched on March 16 by Baidu CEO Robin Li, who gave a livestreamed presentation that walked journalists via a collection of pre-recorded demos displaying the Chinese chatbot’s totally different capabilities.
The firm’s share value dropped whereas the presentation was nonetheless being livestreamed however rebounded the next day, due in half to robust demand from the Chinese company sector.
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