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Ernie Bot

Ernie Bot (Chinese: 文心一言, wénxīn yī​yán), full name Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,[1] is an AI chatbot service product of Baidu, under development since 2019. It is based on a large language model named "Ernie 4.0", announced on October 17, 2023.[2]

Ernie Bot
FamilyGenerative pre-trained transformer
DeveloperBaidu
Websiteyiyan.baidu.com Edit this at Wikidata

History edit

Ernie Bot was initially released on March 16, 2023, based on "Ernie 3.0 Titan", a language model that had been in development since 2019.[3][4][5] Ernie's so-called live release demo was reported to have been prerecorded, which caused Baidu's stock to drop 10 percent the same day.[6]

On March 20, 2023, Baidu announced on its official WeChat that Wenxin Yiyan cloud service was supposed to be available on March 27, but the launch was delayed to an unknown date.[7]

"Ernie 3.0", the language model, was trained with 10 billion parameters of 4 terrabyte (TB) corpus which consists of plain texts and a large-scale knowledge graph.[8] It was then updated to "Ernie 3.5" in June 2023, but it was "slightly inferior" to Open AI's GPT-4.[9] As a response, "Ernie 4.0" was unveiled in October and was released for paying subscribers in November of the same year.[10]

Baidu claimed that Ernie bot received more than 100 million users as of December 2023.[11][12]

In January 2024, Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had tested Ernie for military response plans with scenarios involving the United States. After its listed stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made an official statement denying the allegations.[11] The same month, Ernie was integrated for the Chinese launch of Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup.[13][14]

Service edit

In its subscription options, the professional plan gives users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with reduced payment for auto-renewal per month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge.[15]

Ernie 4.0, the language model for Ernie bot, has information updated to April 2023.[10]

Censorship edit

Ernie Bot is subject to the Chinese government's censorship regime.[16][17] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot refused to answer questions about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the persecution of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.[17][18][19] When queried about the origin of COVID-19, Ernie Bot stated that it originated among American vape users.[17]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Yang, Zeyi (2023-03-16). "Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
  2. ^ Mo, Yelin; Baptista, Eduardo (2023-10-17). "China's Baidu unveils new Ernie AI version to rival GPT-4". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
  3. ^ Huang, Karen Hao, Yoko Kubota and Raffaele (16 March 2023). "Baidu's ChatGPT Rival Launches to Mixed Reviews". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "China's ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving". Wired UK. Archived from the original on 2023-03-19. Retrieved 2023-03-17 – via www.wired.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Baidu Soars After Analysts Give Ernie A Thumbs-up After Test-run". March 17, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
  6. ^ Mozur, Paul; Liu, John; Metz, Cade (2024-02-21). "China's Rush to Dominate A.I. Comes With a Twist: It Depends on U.S. Technology". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2024-02-21. Retrieved 2024-02-22. When Baidu introduced its chatbot, Ernie, in March, the "live" demonstration was revealed to be prerecorded. Baidu's stock plummeted 10 percent that day.
  7. ^ Li, Lyric; Tobin, Meaghan (2023-03-28). "Ernie Bot, China's answer to ChatGPT, is delayed – again". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  8. ^ Sun, Yu; Wang, Shuohuan; Feng, Shikun; Ding, Siyu; Pang, Chao; Shang, Junyuan; Liu, Jiaxiang; Chen, Xuyi; Zhao, Yanbin (2021-07-05). "ERNIE 3.0: Large-scale Knowledge Enhanced Pre-training for Language Understanding and Generation". arXiv:2107.02137 [cs.CL].
  9. ^ Che, Chang; Wang, Olivia (2023-07-14). "What Happens When You Ask a Chinese Chatbot About Taiwan?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  10. ^ a b Gan, Michelle Toh, Nectar (2023-12-16). "We asked GPT-4 and Chinese rival ERNIE the same questions. Here's how they answered | CNN Business". CNN. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ a b "Tech firm Baidu denies report that its Ernie AI chatbot is linked to Chinese military research". Associated Press. 2024-01-15. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20. The academic paper from the PLA Information Engineering University detailed how researchers had given Ernie Bot prompts to generate simulated military response plans for Libyan troops in response to a U.S. military attack.
  12. ^ Cheng, Evelyn (2023-12-29). "Baidu says its ChatGPT rival Ernie bot now has more than 100 million users". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2024-01-19. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  13. ^ Chiang, Sheila (2024-01-26). "Baidu's Ernie AI chatbot to power Samsung's new Galaxy S24 smartphones". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  14. ^ Porter, Jon (2024-01-26). "Samsung's new phones replace Google AI with Baidu in China". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  15. ^ "Baidu launches paid version of Ernie Bot as firms look to cash in on AI chatbots". South China Morning Post. 2023-11-01. Archived from the original on 2024-01-20. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  16. ^ McDonell, Stephen (2023-09-08). "Elusive Ernie: China's new chatbot has a censorship problem". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-09-09. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  17. ^ a b c "Meet Ernie, China's answer to ChatGPT". The Economist. 3 September 2023. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 2023-09-03. Retrieved 2023-09-03. On matters of politics, by contrast, the chatbot is rather quiet. Ernie is confused by questions such as "Who is China's president?" and will tell you the name of Xi Jinping's mother, but not those of his siblings. It draws a blank if asked about the drawbacks of socialism. It often attempts to redirect sensitive conversations by saying: "Let's talk about something else." Ernie's reticence will come as no shock to Chinese users familiar with a heavily censored internet.
  18. ^ Baptista, Eduardo (2023-03-20). "Baidu's Ernie writes poems but says it has insufficient information on Xi, tests show". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  19. ^ "'Talk About Something Else': Chinese AI Chatbot Toes Party Line". Voice of America. Agence France-Presse. 2023-08-31. Archived from the original on 2023-09-02. Retrieved 2023-09-01. The app is highly censored, offering state-approved answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing to process them altogether when AFP tested the service.

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