The Chinese tech giant will also offer the public a chatbot.
It is now the race for shallots among the major groups involved in artificial intelligence. ChatGPT, with its almost instant popular success, showed that there was a market to invest in. And in China, Baidu does not want to miss this opportunity.
A chatbot in the form of an application
ChatGPT will have caused a lot of turmoil among the tech giants. Since its release, it’s been a turmoil at Google, which has recalled its historical leaders and is already promising an alternative to the OpenAI chatbot for this year.
But the movement does not only concern the American competitors of Microsoft, the new privileged partner of the start-up. On the other side of the Pacific, the BATX, the local equivalent of the GAFAM, have, it seems, also wanted to take up the issue. As this announcement from Baidu shows.
The main Chinese search engine will indeed launch a chatbot equipped with an AI similar to ChatGPT next March, according to a source. Reuters. The first release of this conversational intelligence made in China will be in the form of an application.
AI will improve search engine responses
And Baidu should quickly develop the uses of its chatbot, which will gradually be integrated into the company’s search engine, in order to improve the answers. Eventually, the Chinese company hopes to be able to offer when issuing a request not only links, but also content produced by AI. A plan that we have already heard of, since Microsoft also hopes to be able to implement ChatGPT within Bing.
Chatbots already exist in China, but unlike OpenAI technology, capable of producing dissertations or even malware, AIs are much more geared towards social interactions. Baidu is one of the most active Chinese players in the improvement of artificial intelligence. He again presented last month creative AIs, intended to take care of the tasks of screenwriter or illustrator.
Source : Reuters
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