Beijing To Support Key Firms in Building ChatGPT-like AI Models

China's capital Beijing will support leading enterprises in building large artificial intelligence (AI) models that can challenge ChatGPT, the city's economy and information technology bureau said on Monday. From a report: The city will support key firms to invest in building an open source framework and accelerate the supply of basic data, it said in a statement. The bureau also said that 1,048 core AI companies, or 29% of the country's total, were located in Beijing as of October last year, and that it would look into ways to cultivate talent and conduct research in areas such as ethical governance.

Chinese "ethical governance"

[Dictator For Life]

One of these things is not like the other.

Thanks to Google

[Nocturrne]

Thanks for investing in AI research centers in China. All of the worst possible uses for AI are about to be realized. Congratulations....

Skynet speaks Mandarin

[nospam007]

Who could have known?

Wow

[systemd-anonymousd]

Anyone know where I can access them, so I can get a version of ChatGPT with less censorship?

Re: Wow

[ickleberry]

Not from China anyway

I'm willing to bet

[sentiblue]

That they are just pretending to develop AI.

The truth is they already hacked US based AI firms, stole their stuffs and will launch an identical replica.

"What happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989?"

[Pierre Pants]

"I'm sorry, it appears that you are exhibiting dangerous behavior and trying to spread lies that the West uses against the great country of China. Your IP address and other identifying information have been sent to the authorities. I will no longer be available to answer your questions. Thank you for understanding."

Good Luck

[Whateverthisis]

As much as people like to say that software is the key to everything, the reality is it only works as long as there are data centers to run it and there is power to run those data centers. In the western world we take that for granted, popping up a new data center is something you do on a day ending in "y" here. But the Chinese can't.

Domestic chip production in China is terrible. They've required foreign experts to help run their fabs, but all those ex-pats left ever since the Biden administration sa [fortune.com]

Why?

[RitchCraft]

China's leadership is already full of artificial intelligence. Why introduce more?

Nothing to fear

[bailin]

Government support in China typically amounts to building another high tech park at the outskirts with subsidized rents for "AI companies". Every city in China has at least one of those, since it is the surest way for the local government and affiliated developers to make use of cheap central bank loans earmarked for "innovation". Pretty much always these high-tech parks have occupancy rate of around 10%, with companies inside doing anything but high-tech. This does nothing to address the real challenges: L

ChatGPT. do people even care about it ?

[bsdetector101]

Is ChatGPT like the Metaverse ? Something companies think people want, but most don't care.