The Chinese internet giant Baidu announced on Tuesday the launch in the test phase of its own conversational robot based on artificial intelligence, after that of ChatGPT, the American software that unleashes passions.
In November, the Californian start-up OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a conversational system capable of answering any question online with more or less precision. The app can also write novels or poems in seconds.
Artificial intelligence, presented as a technology of the future that will revolutionize the autonomy of machines and their interaction with humans, is the subject of growing interest.
But like ChatGPT, these bots fascinate as much as they worry, between tools that are likely to spare humans from tedious tasks and a threat to many jobs whose usefulness they might question.
A Baidu spokeswoman told AFP that the company “should be able to complete internal testing” of its chatbot in March.
Called “Ernie Bot,” it will then be “available to the general public” at an unspecified date, he said.
Baidu is the largest Chinese company to date to design a ChatGPT-like chatbot.
This announcement caused its share price to rise more than 15% in the morning on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where the group is listed.
Based in Beijing, Baidu is the leading search engine in China. But the group has embarked in recent years on a total diversification.
It is already present in artificial intelligence, with the development of autonomous cars, but also in dematerialized (“cloud”) computing.
With particular support from Microsoft, ChatGPT is stirring up passion and its features are attracting the greed of Internet giants. Google announced Monday that it is testing its own chatbot, called Bard.
Source: BFM TV
