Baidu Says Its AI as Good as ChatGPT in Big Claim for China (bloomberg.com) 16
Baidu's founder Robin Li declared his company's large language model has finally caught up with OpenAI's advanced GPT-4, claiming the lead in his country's race to develop AI that can rival the US. From a report: The billionaire took the stage in Beijing Tuesday to run Ernie 4.0 through a Q&A designed to showcase its ability to provide answers and solve complicated puzzles on the fly. Ernie has matched OpenAI's seminal product in terms of sophistication and general capabilities, Li told a packed house at a converted steel mill that now serves as an auditorium. The marquee Ernie chatbot now surpassed 45 million users -- a milestone that still lags ChatGPT's estimated 180 million, though the US bot launched months earlier. China's search leader, often referred to as a homegrown equivalent to Google, is pinning its hopes on AI to help it surpass rivals from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to Tencent that control the rest of the internet.
Baidu is leading a wave of aggressive investment across China after ChatGPT demonstrated the disruptive potential of generative AI -- which can craft video and content from simple commands. It's regarded as a leader in a race with local big tech firms and scores of startups to create a next-generation platform for the world's biggest internet market. They're trying to compete with American names from Microsoft to Google to create services like ChatGPT and Dall-E, but US sanctions on Chinese access to the most advanced chips to train and run AI models, coupled with Beijing's stringent censorship, could cloud their prospects. Washington is tightening curbs on shipments of AI chips to the country, stoking that uncertainty. "Ernie is not inferior in any respect to GPT-4," Li told the audience.
Baidu is leading a wave of aggressive investment across China after ChatGPT demonstrated the disruptive potential of generative AI -- which can craft video and content from simple commands. It's regarded as a leader in a race with local big tech firms and scores of startups to create a next-generation platform for the world's biggest internet market. They're trying to compete with American names from Microsoft to Google to create services like ChatGPT and Dall-E, but US sanctions on Chinese access to the most advanced chips to train and run AI models, coupled with Beijing's stringent censorship, could cloud their prospects. Washington is tightening curbs on shipments of AI chips to the country, stoking that uncertainty. "Ernie is not inferior in any respect to GPT-4," Li told the audience.
Missing verb in subject (Score:2)
Is it troubling that it reads fine even without the verb? Is that word being worn out of the language?
Missing more than a verb. (Score:1)
Uh, bragging about how good your "AI" is compared to....ChatGPT? As in that thing we've been mocking quite effectively for the last few months when asking for more than clickbait headlines and funky art?
We're missing more than a verb here. The hell is the point. This is like McDonalds bragging that they're just as good as...McDonalds.
Re: Missing more than a verb. (Score:2)
That would be a fine point, if there were no chefs anywhere on Earth that could do better than McDonalds food.
Re: Missing more than a verb. (Score:2)
Says chatgpt, but no actual person believes that.
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Simply not used by AI.
Isn't most of the tech (Score:2)
How do you control AI? (Score:3, Funny)
Orly? (Score:1, Informative)
"China lies about thing because of image again."
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Bloomberg threw all credibility out the window with its 2018 story claiming that Chinese spy chips were installed on Supermicro motherboards, and the 2021 follow-up story that doubled down on their claims without an ounce of physical evidence.
I have no idea why anyone would pay an ounce of attention to any story Bloomberg publishes concerning science and technology. Their reporters will beli
At least it will work in Chinese? (Score:4, Informative)
Last time I tried, ChatGPT didn't work in Greek, which should be trivial. After all, there is a large corpus of Modern Greek text.
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You did not bother to check, did you? Nope, better write a quick shitty disparaging comment for likes.
Here you go:
https://chat.openai.com/share/... [openai.com]
Hey Baidu? (Score:1)
"Hey Baidu? How do I jumpstart a car?"
"To be first thing, get cable and battery attach for having connected good working."
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Robin Li was born on November 17, 1968, in Tangquan, China in a worker's family, as the only boy out of five children. His province was underdeveloped and lacked resources for education. Despite that Robin worked hard on his education and was able to pass the entrance exam at Peking University where he was accepted in 1987, and he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Science degree in library information management in 1991.
Soon after he finished university, he was determined to find a job. Robin started to work in a company in Beijing for over a year and a half, but he had intentions to leave his homeland for better education. That's when he received admission to the Fellowship program at the State University of New York.
Robin wanted to complete his Ph.D. in computer science after earning a master's degree in 1994, but he decided to give up on the doctorate and started looking for a job instead. He landed a job at Dow Jones and Company's IDD Information Services as a software engineer.
Here, Robin got the chance to work with search engine algorithms.
While working at IDD, Robin began his work on his page-ranking algorithms and shortly after developed the first search engine named Rankdex, with page-ranking and site-scoring algorithms.
Not sure if true (too lazy to find out) but supposedly the patent Google has for their search technology Pagerank, cites Rankdex and Robin Li's work. Can someone confirm or disprove?
I'm just a little sceptical (Score:1)
I'm just a little sceptical, hugging face has some very good LLM's but I am yet to find one that is evolved as much as ChatGPT, it is possible to have a very good LLM but not achieve the same level as ChatGPT I would be very surprised if it is directly comparable to ChatGPT, I'm not saying its not possible I just don't believe these claims as it is a bit subjective.