Baidu explained that its Ernie bot can generate images, text, audio and video from given text prompts.
Chinese Internet company Baidu has unveiled its AI chatbot named Ernie Bot. The technology company held a closed-door meeting where it revealed the product to several interested partners. Meanwhile, the initial plan was to launch a live-stream product. CEO Robin Lee on March 16 Presented Ernie Bot investors despite the fact that it was not fully ready at the time. The company featured it anyway because of the high demand for the chatbot. It lost around 0% as many observers expected a live performance. Specifically, Ernie stands for Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration.
Baidu built the chatbot largely on the ERNIE large language model. The company revealed that over 120,000 companies had expressed their interest in using the Natural Language Search function through AI technology. Hence, it decided to showcase the product in closed door meetings. The CEO explained that Ernie the bot came to life as a result of many years of hard work and the company’s persistence in investing in AI. According to Li, 650 companies have signed up to use the bot, which is applicable in AI cloud, smart devices, self-driving cars and search.
Additionally, Ernie Bot is capable of producing a variety of media, unlike OpenAI’s GPT-4, which can only take picture and text input. Baidu explained that its Ernie bot can generate images, text, audio and video from given text prompts. The new technology can also generate voice output in multiple dialects. As the Ernie-ViLG model was developed to convert text into various formats, Baidu said that its ability to generate images is “completely self-developed”. Ernie Bot displayed more prowess than when it was unveiled by Baidu a few weeks ago.
During a previous demonstration on March 16, technology such as ChatGPT proved its capability in image generation and text signals. It can also write poetry and produce audio in Chinese dialects. However, Baidu revealed in the latest unveiling that Ernie Bot can produce more. It can create human-like livestreams for virtual ads. It can also make travel itinerary.
The popular ChatGPT sparked interest in creating and inspired many companies to launch their own AI products. MicrosoftMassive investment in the technology also boosted its popularity, after which Google announced a similar technology – Bard. Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard have shown impressive results since their release.
Baidu is currently trading up 0.44% on the Nasdaq after closing down 2.27%. Records show that the company has been growing over the past year, growing at around 4% over the past twelve months. It has gained 33.53% since the start of the year and has gained about 37% in the last three months.
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