A first chatbot made in China experienced a brief moment of life this week.
Created at the very prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai, the AI could only be available for a few hours before finally crashing. Chinese tech players have recently expressed their interest in this technology, which they wish to develop in turn.
MOSS, the first Chinese test
Will we have to wait for the achievements of Baidu, the Chinese equivalent of Google, to see the emergence of a quality chatbot within the Middle Kingdom? This is what seems to show a first rather unsuccessful experience conducted on the side of Shanghai.
A team from Fudan University, one of the best in the country, had indeed communicated earlier this week on the launch of a new chatbot. The announcement instantly excited the public, including generating tens of millions of reactions on the Weibo social network.
Unfortunately, the AI, dubbed MOSS, after a famous supercomputer appearing in the Chinese blockbuster The Wandering Earth 2, did not hold the shock of reality. Faced with the explosion in the number of users registered at the time of its public availability on Tuesday, the chatbot simply crashed.
ChatGPT still way above
Have the researchers gone too quickly? If it happened several times to ChatGPT, which saw its number of users reach 100 million in just 2 months, to go unavailable, the problem is more serious for MOSS. Proof of this is that its creators decided after this incident not to bring it back to life.
” MOSS is still a very immature model, it still has a long way to go before reaching ChatGPT. A university research laboratory like ours is unable to produce a model whose capacity approaches ChatGPT “, they explain in a message posted on their website.
” Our computing resources were not sufficient to support such heavy traffic and, as a university group, we do not have enough engineering experience “, they added. According to the few feedbacks that could be shared, MOSS was still far from the level of ChatGPT. So, USA 1, China 0?
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- Chat in different languages, including French.
- Generate, translate and get a text summary.
- Generate, optimize and correct code.
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a conversational agent based on the GPT-3 language model. This chat platform uses deep learning and artificial intelligence to understand and interpret user queries, then generate relevant responses.
Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a conversational agent based on the GPT-3 language model. This chat platform uses deep learning and artificial intelligence to understand and interpret user queries, then generate relevant responses.
Source : Reuters
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