Chinese tech giant claims AI chatbot on par with GPT-4

Baidu CEO Robin Li Yanhong introduces Ernie Bot 4 at the event on October 17. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Robin Li Yanhong, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, demonstrated Ernie Bot 4 on October 17 at the Baidu World 2023 conference in Beijing. The billionaire showed off the chatbot's ability to understand complex questions, generate images, and perform some basic math. For example, the bot can create a car commercial in minutes and create a plot for a martial arts novel from scratch.

Ernie Bot works primarily in Chinese, while providing responses in English at a simpler level.

“Its general ability is not inferior to GPT-4,” he claimed. According to Robin Li, AI today is smart enough to understand almost everything humans say, and in many cases, it understands better than friends or colleagues.

In a race with OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, a slew of Chinese companies have introduced more than 100 large language models (LLMs) this year. ChatGPT and Western rivals like Google Bard have no official presence in the mainland or Hong Kong, although Microsoft is pushing its GPT-4-based Bing Chat there.

In the absence of foreign players, major Chinese tech companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, Vivo, and Oppo have all launched their own AI products.

On the regulatory front, the country’s authorities have also released new regulations and guidelines for AI-generated content. For example, the new draft suggests using a blacklist system to block illegal LLM training data.

Previously, Baidu said that Ernie Bot 3.5's coverage ability surpassed OpenAI's GPT 3.5, even beating GPT-4 with some operations in Chinese.

In recent months, Baidu has refreshed many of its apps, including search and maps, to include new features based on Ernie Bot.

(According to SCMP)

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