Chinese language 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.
Based on photographs shared by a Baidu spokesperson in a media-facing group on WeChat, China’s most generally used messaging service, the Chinese language chatbot has a wider vary of expertise than beforehand displayed when it was launched virtually two weeks in the past.
Again then the ChatGPT-like product was proven to be competent at producing photographs with textual content prompts, composing poetry and producing audio in Chinese language dialects.
The movies shared on Monday present the chatbot, powered by generative synthetic 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 firms which are 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 “sturdy demand” from over 120,000 firms that had utilized to check the Ernie bot, the corporate mentioned in a press release on Monday morning, including this might be the primary of many closed-door conferences.
The change, nonetheless, prompted Baidu’s Hong Kong-listed shares to fall as a lot as 4.5 p.c on Monday morning.
Extra firms will be capable to 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.
Checks performed by Reuters present that the common model has a very good command of the Chinese language 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 by way of a sequence of pre-recorded demos displaying the Chinese language chatbot’s totally different capabilities.
The corporate’s share worth dropped whereas the presentation was nonetheless being livestreamed however rebounded the next day, due partially to sturdy demand from the Chinese language company sector.
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