ChatGPT Lookalikes Proliferate in China (bloomberg.com) 10
ChatGPT is big in China, even though it's not officially available there. From a report: China's obsession with ChatGPT runs deeper than curiosity. Search giant Baidu is preparing to launch its own competitor, Ernie Bot, in March. It'll embed the tool initially into its search services and smart speakers. Amid the fervor, Alibaba, NetEase and Tencent each promised similar initiatives in the span of a few days, stirring Chinese tech stocks from a years-long slump. The government in Beijing, where Baidu is based, has vowed to give more support to such efforts.
This is the first time in probably more than a decade that Chinese internet firms are all racing to adopt, localize and perhaps advance a Silicon Valley invention on the level of Google, Facebook or YouTube. Microsoft's Bing and Alphabet's Google -- which showed its own artificial-intelligence search assistant called Bard -- appear to have an early lead. But both products exhibit many flaws. Rolling the services out too soon could create problems for Bing and Google. Doing so in China could be disastrous. Appeasing the country's complex censorship machine is difficult enough for search and social media companies. Trying to keep a malleable AI bot in check is a new kind of challenge.
This is the first time in probably more than a decade that Chinese internet firms are all racing to adopt, localize and perhaps advance a Silicon Valley invention on the level of Google, Facebook or YouTube. Microsoft's Bing and Alphabet's Google -- which showed its own artificial-intelligence search assistant called Bard -- appear to have an early lead. But both products exhibit many flaws. Rolling the services out too soon could create problems for Bing and Google. Doing so in China could be disastrous. Appeasing the country's complex censorship machine is difficult enough for search and social media companies. Trying to keep a malleable AI bot in check is a new kind of challenge.
Come on guys. (Score:3)
I'm sure if we really try we could have a full first page of nothing but ChatGPT and ChatGPT alike stories!
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I know an AI that could likely produce these stories for us!
is ai a co-op or an arms race? (Score:1)
It seems nobody can explain how the darn thing works yet rush to release apps based on it. Why not build the ai and put what ever frontend you want on it?
In China how about everywhere. (Score:2)
Re: In China how about everywhere. (Score:3)
The only ChatGPT is chat.openai.com, there is no app yet, everything in the app stores are shady fakes of one sort of another.
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AI tends to reflect the biases of its trainers (Score:1)