Chinese tech giant Baidu has launched its own ChatGPT competitor, the Ernie bot.
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baidu said on Tuesday that the artificial intelligence model that underpins its chatbot Outperforms OpenAI’s ChatGPT in several key areas.
The Chinese search engine has been publicly testing Ernie Bot in China since its release in March. The chatbot is based on Ernie, Baidu’s foundational artificial intelligence model. One base model is artificial intelligence trained on large amounts of data. The latest version of the Baidu model is called Ernie 3.5.
Baidu quoted the “China Science Daily” as saying that Ernie 3.5 surpassed ChatGPT in several benchmark tests. ChatGPT is based on OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 model.
Ernie 3.5 also beat OpenAI’s latest, more advanced model, GPT 4, in the Chinese test, Science Magazine reported.
The focus on Baidu’s progress underscores the fierce competition in the field of generative artificial intelligence with the rapid advancement of U.S. and Chinese tech giants.
One test cited by the Chinese Journal of Science is based on standard admissions and qualifying exams, such as those needed to enter college or qualify for the bar. Ernie 3.5 Chinese version surpasses ChatGPT and GPT 4.
However, while it was ahead of ChatGPT, the English version fell behind GPT 4.The publisher of this test is Microsoft.
Another test focuses on Chinese and contains more than 13,000 multiple-choice questions covering more than 50 different subjects. Ernie 3.5 leads ChatGPT and GPT 4 in this evaluation.
The third test contains questions from a variety of subjects, including the sciences and humanities, and was developed by a group of American universities. Ernie 3.5 is behind ChatGPT and GPT 4.
Baidu talked up its advances in artificial intelligence as it looks to get ahead of rivals in the technology, such as alibaba.
“Ernie Bot (Baidu’s Large Language Model (LLM) based on Ernie 3.0) has only been in beta for three months, and Ernie 3.5 offers extensive enhancements in terms of power, functionality and performance,” Baidu CTO Wang Haifeng said in a statement. .”
“These improvements are evident in creative writing, question answering, inference and code generation, and in both training performance and inference performance.”
Baidu says a defining characteristic of its latest models is the ability to access “plugins,” which are basically apps that can be accessed through Ernie Bot. For example, Baidu’s search function has been integrated with Ernie Bot through a plugin.
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