Baidu's AI chatbot ducks out of public demo

Baidu's ERNIE chatbot, launched with great fanfare two weeks ago, has gone missing. Baidu last week invited users and media, including The Register, to a Monday product launch at which it promised to reveal "a series of ERNIE Bot cloud services and application products." "Enterprises of different types can choose cloud …

[Anonymous Coward]

Fully cognizant

... that saying something politically wrong could lead to a lobotomy.

[Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells]

I wonder if they know that ERNIE was originally an RNG used by Premium Bonds?

How apt.

[jollyboyspecial]

I'm hoping this time it doesn't just stand for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment

[_Elvi_]

Seriously ..

One snarky comment from ERNIE about the Middle Kingdom.. and POOFF!

[skeptical i]

rubber duckie

Might ERNIE have gone MIA because Ernie, the Sesame Street character, once sang a song about his beloved rubber duckie? Of possible note is the lyric:

Every day when I

Make my way to the

tu-ubby,

I find a little fella'

who's cute and yella'

and chu-ubby:

Rubber duck duck duckie.

Given the response to Winnie-the-Pooh, one wonders if all chubby yellow (historic slur against Asians) beings are verboten. There's also another line, "rubber duckie, joy of joys, when I squeeze you you make noise" which could be read as a criticism of leadership style.

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