China’s Baidu reveals generative AI chatbot based on language model bigger than GPT-3

Chinese web giant Baidu, which has “AI” in its name and has made AI the focus of its hyperscale cloud, has revealed it will launch a generative AI chatbot later this year. Chinese media reported the launch and Baidu confirmed it to The Register. “The company plans to complete internal testing in March before making the …

[PhilipN]

Reminder

In the UK ERNIE was for the National Lottery, kids.

Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment or thereabouts.

[David 132]

Re: Reminder

Premium Bonds. Not National Lottery. But yeah, you beat me to it!

[katrinab]

Re: Reminder

Yes, Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment, but it is for Premium Bonds, not the National Lottery. Premium bonds is a bit like a lottery except the prizes are generally much lower, and you get your "ticket" price back even if you don't win.

[Primus Secundus Tertius]

Re: Reminder

Instead of receiving a steady rate of interest payments, you get paid sporadically, and tax-free. Maybe next month I shall be a millionaire.

[captain veg]

Re: Reminder

> you get your "ticket" price back even if you don't win

Kind of.

When I was very small my parents invested six Sterling pounds into premium bonds for my future.

At the time, that was about a week's pay.

Today it's still £6.00.

-A.

[Roger Kynaston]

Re: Reminder

Could it be revenge for the Opium wars? Brits will feed their Premium bond number into it and the Chinese gummint will then switch the ownership so they win £50 pounds every once in a while?

[Anonymous Coward]

How fast can it bring me my milk?

[Arbuthnot the Magnificent]

Pasteurised is best!

[David 132]

"Pasteurized? I'd be happy if it comes up to me chest!"

[captain veg]

That tickled old Ernie.

-A.

[elsergiovolador]

Dude, Pasteur died 127 years ago...

[David 132]

Faster than any other one in the West!

[TimMaher]

Watch out for...

...the stale pork pie!

[Andy The Hat]

Re: Watch out for...

I believe that should now be corrected to "a use-by-date expired pork pie (meat products, thickeners (gelatin), butter, wheat flour, water - may contain MILK, PORK, WHEAT, NUTS, SULPHITES) caught him in the eye (WARNING eye protection advised) ... Have you had an accident which wasn't your fault?"

Not sure I can get that to scan quite like the original ...

[alain williams]

I wonder what it will say ...

if you ask it to write a story about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 ?

The Simpsons are not allowed to mention it.

[The Man Who Fell To Earth]

Re: I wonder what it will say ...

Yes, an AI trained on only CCP approved data should be very interesting.

Human: Who invented the airplane?

ERNIE Bot: Feng Ru

[captain veg]

Re: I wonder what it will say ...

When I first moved to France it used to amuse me to play this game with humans of the French persuasion.

Me: Who invented the pneumatic tyre?

Johnny Frenchman (confidently): Michelin.

Me: Who introduced potatoes to Europe?

JF(c): Parmentier.

Etc.

-A.

[steviebuk]

Just like...

...Huawei's Sara AI.

[captain veg]

plausible, but wrong

"Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration (Ernie)"

Even as capitalised that makes ERKI, not ERNIE. The omission of "through" is entirely arbitrary. It should be ERTKI.

It's pretty obvious that the words themselves were selected in order to make the backronym, so massive fail all round.

Was it suggested by the chatbot itself?

-A.

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Re: plausible, but wrong

The one named "Wide Integration Neural Network Intelligence and Emotion" vanished without a trace.

[Andy The Hat]

I wonder what the source of their massive language database is and whether there was any opting-in?