South China Morning Post

In January 2024, Hong Kong paper South China Morning Post reported that a university research laboratory connected to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had actually checked Ernie Bot and iFlyTek’s Spark for military reaction strategies with situations involving the United States. After its noted stock in Hong Kong plunged by more than 11.5 percent, Baidu made a main declaration rejecting the accusations. [11]

Ernie was integrated for the Chinese launch of Samsung’s Galaxy S24 lineup. [14] [15]

In June 2024, Baidu announced that Ernie Bot had reached 300 million users. The business likewise unveiled its most current structure design, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts quicker response times and improved efficiency. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu provided everybody utilizing the app access to the 4.0 Turbo model and likewise revealed it would alter its Chinese name from “Wenxin Yiyan” (文心一言) to “Wenxiaoyan” (文小言) placing itself as a search assistant. [17] [18]

Training

Ernie Bot is based on particular Ernie structure models, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training procedure begins from pre-training, gaining from trillions of data points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by improvement through monitored fine-tuning, reinforcement knowing with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its membership choices, the professional strategy provides users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with lower payment for auto-renewal monthly. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is free of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese government’s censorship regime. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot refused to respond to concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the of Uyghurs in China in Xinjiang, and the 2019-2020 Hong Kong demonstrations. [22] [24] [25] When queried about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, Ernie Bot specified that it stemmed amongst American vape users. [22]

See also

Artificial intelligence market in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

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