Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot Tops 100 Million Users

Baidu's ChatGPT-like Ernie Bot has garnered more than 100 million users, chief technology officer of the Chinese internet company Wang Haifeng said on Thursday. From a report: The user base milestone comes after Baidu opened Ernie Bot to the public in August. This was preceded by a partial unveiling and more than five-month trial period where select users could test the chatbot's capabilities. Analysts said that while the partial unveiling in March was underwhelming, it still gave the company a valuable first-mover advantage in a market that has since become crowded with dozens of players, as Chinese tech companies, large and small, look to develop their own chatbots powered by generative AI.

Big numbers confuse us.

[mm4902]

People in general freak out when they see numbers from China but we constantly forget that China has over 4x more people than the USA. If you take a number like 100 million users and divide by 4 than 25 million is what would be comparable in the USA. Still impressive, but not mind boggling.

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[derplord]

Plus it's China so the trustworthiness of any statistic is on par with InfoWars.

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[dfghjk]

"we constantly forget that China has over 4x more people than the USA"

"We" NEVER forget that, much less constantly forget that. What you apparently "constantly forget" is that they are different populations in ways other than size.

"If you take a number like 100 million users and divide by 4 than 25 million is what would be comparable in the USA."

No more or less comparable than NOT dividing by 4. "Comparable" means only that they can be compared. Also, the size of different countries's populations is irre

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[peragrin]

We often forgot our military costs 11 times what the closet competitor.

We often forget our health care costs are triple what the rest of the world has for a fraction of the people.

When it comes to big numbers we often forget our miltary takes up 20-30% of our annual budget and everything domestic takes up 5%

That is not how it works

[drinkypoo]

Analysts said that while the partial unveiling in March was underwhelming, it still gave the company a valuable first-mover advantage

If your first move is a shitty one, it doesn't actually help your position in the game.

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[JackieBrown]

Analysts said that while the partial unveiling in March was underwhelming, it still gave the company a valuable first-mover advantage

If your first move is a shitty one, it doesn't actually help your position in the game.

It worked for Microsoft in the 90s

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[drinkypoo]

Microsoft made phenomenally great business moves in the 90s. Shitty for the rest of us, but great for them.

So...

[Chris Mattern]

..when are we getting the Bert bot?

That Genie wont go back in a bottle easily

[TomGreenhaw]

There have been claims that Baidu has copied this tech from others. If they copied training data, it certainly contains a lot of things the Chinese government typically censors..

100 million users

[nospam007]

Minus the few million arrested for asking the wrong questions.