South China Morning Post

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

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

In June 2024, Baidu announced that Ernie Bot had actually reached 300 million users. The business likewise revealed its most current structure model, Ernie 4.0 Turbo, which boasts quicker reaction times and enhanced performance. [16]

In September 2024, Baidu offered everyone utilizing the app access to the 4.0 Turbo design and also revealed it would change 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 upon particular Ernie structure designs, consisting of Ernie 3.0, Ernie 3.5, and Ernie 4.0. The training process starts from pre-training, learning from trillions of data points and billions of understanding pieces. This was followed by refinement through supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, and trigger. [19]

Service

In its subscription choices, the professional plan offers users access to Ernie 4.0 with a payment either for a month or with decreased payment for auto-renewal each month. Meanwhile, Ernie 3.5 is complimentary of charge. [20]

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

Censorship

Ernie Bot goes through the Chinese government’s censorship program. [21] [22] [23] In public tests with journalists, Ernie Bot refused to respond to concerns about Xi Jinping, the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre, the persecution 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 came from amongst American vape users. [22]

See also

Expert system industry in China
ChatGPT
Google Gemini

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