Like the space race and arms race in the 90s, the 21st century is witnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) race. A day after Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival named 'Bard', China’s Baidu was quoted on Tuesday that it will finish internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project named “Ernie Bot” in March. As soon as China's Ernie Bot was announced, the Hong Kong-listed shares of search engine giant Baidu skyrocketed by 15.3% on Tuesday. Now, the question arises, what is Ernie Bot, and how is it different from ChatGPT and Google Bard? Here's what the parent company Baidu said in its official statement-
As per reports, Baidu inits statement said- Ernie, or 'Enhanced Representation via Knowledge Integration,' is a huge AI-powered language model that was presented in 2019 and has steadily developed to be capable of activities such as language interpretation, language production, and text-to-image generation. Furthermore, Baidu intends to launch the service as a standalone app before progressively integrating it into its search engine by including chatbot-generated results when users make search requests. On the other hand, ChatGPT is not accessible in China, therefore, mainland investors are still pumping up the shares of AI technology companies such as Hanwang Technology Co, TRS Information Technology Co and Cloudwalk Technology Co. For the unversed, Baidu, situated in Beijing, has been a pioneer in various digital movements in China. It is pertinent to mention here that when the metaverse became a new buzzword in late 2021, Baidu created “XiRang,” which it billed as China’s first metaverse platform. However, it did not get good response as the company was slammed for not providing a high-level, immersive experience, and Baidu stated that it was a work in progress.
What is Google Bard?
Described by Google's CEO Pichai as an ‘important next step in our AI journey,’ Bard, according to the CEO, 'seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models.' In layman's language, Google Bard is an AI-powered chatbot that can offer answers to many queries in a conversational way -- similar to ChatGPT. As per the blog shared by Google, Bard draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses.
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What is Bard? How Google's chatbot is different from Microsoft-backed ChatGPT? Explained
ChatGPT has been sweeping the internet and experiencing massive traction around the globe. The traction was too high that ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer application in the history of internet applications. The popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, from OpenAI, has reached 100 million users. Launched in November last year, ChatGPT has attained the feat in a short span of two months. ChatGPT is a pre-trained transformer-based language model developed by OpenAI. It’s capable of generating natural language responses to a wide range of topics and has been trained on a massive dataset of over 8 million web pages and 45 terabytes of text. ChatGPT relies on GPT-3 language model, which is also built on Transformer.