Baidu, a Chinese platform in the search segment, announced on Tuesday (7) the development of a chatbot with similar features to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. ABOUT Ernie Bot – artificial intelligence, which should also convincingly imitate human handwriting. As of now, Ernie Bot does not have a confirmed release date.

In recent months, ChatGPT has caused a complete buzz on the Internet and stirred up large industries in the technology segment. Google, for example, has even called emergency meetings due to concerns about OpenAI. The big tech hasn’t officially revealed this yet, but it’s also working on a ChatGPT competitor.

For now Baidu confirms development of AI Ernie Bot, but doesn’t give a release date. It is also not reported whether the chatbot will be integrated into the search engine, although everything indicates that it will. Anonymous sources associated with the Baidu group claim that “internal tests may end in March before the chatbot goes public.”

Baidu shares soar after the announcement

In recent months, the OpenAI chatbot has become a hot topic. People are so interested in (and afraid of) the possibilities of the AI ​​universe that Baidu just announced a competitor that The company’s shares rose by more than 15%.

Baidu has been investing in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and autonomous driving systems for several years. It’s still too early to tell if the company is developing a competitor at the height of ChatGPT, but all indications are that Ernie Bot will be integrated into the search engine, giving users a new web search experience. With Google also developing a competitor, it looks like AI competition is about to get fiercer. The solutions offered by large technology companies should also broadly affect different sectors of society, from academia to several professions.

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Source: UOL

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