The Chinese Internet giant Baidu said that at the end of 2023 he would launch his own generative chatbot with artificial intelligence. Baidu officially confirmed news on the launch of chatbot.
BAIDU representative noted that the company plans to complete internal testing in March before making the chatbot publicly available. The bot will be called “Wenxin Yiyan 文心 言 言” (“Ernie Bot” in English).
The bot is based on a model of expanded representation through the integration of knowledge (Enhanced Representation Through Knowledge Integration, Ernie), first presented in 2019. Ernie can perform a wide range of tasks, including an understanding of the language, the generation of language (Ernie 3.0 Titan) and the generation of text in the image (Ernie-Vilg) “.
Ernie Bot speaks English and Chinese. In document from 2021, the process of learning ERNIE is described in detail and states that the model exceeds all competitors, including CHATGPT (GPT-3), in many tasks.
Recently, Baidu has discussed “the proposed algorithm of controlled learning so that the model can formulate reasonable and coherent texts.” The company did hard work on the creation of such a system, developing in 2021 “ Ernie 3.0 Titan ” – Language Model for preliminary preparation from 260 billion parameters (ChatGPT uses 175 billion parameters).
Baidu statement certainly attracted attention: the company’s price jumped about 15% a few hours after the company revealed the details about Ernie Bot.