Baidu Says AI Chatbot 'Ernie Bot' Has Attracted 200 Million Users

China's Baidu says its AI chatbot "Ernie Bot" has amassed more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China's most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition. From a report: The number of users has roughly doubled since the company's last update in December. The chatbot was released to the public eight months ago. Baidu CEO Robin Li also said Ernie Bot's API is being used 200 million times everyday, meaning the chatbot was requested by its user to conduct tasks that many times a day. The number of enterprise clients for the chatbot reached 85,000, Li said at a conference in Shenzhen.

Let me be the (maybe) first to ask...

[Black Parrot]

Where's Bert bot?

Re:

[Chris Mattern]

Had to be scrapped. Turned out it was evil.

Re:

[Z00L00K]

Not that Ernie - Ernie by Bud Grace.

So how many toasters are there in the closet?

Ernie? Too late

[mccalli]

Ernie name has been taken for years - it's the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment [wikipedia.org] that has powered the UK's Premium Bonds prize drawing for 68 years.

Well...

[war4peace]

Shit attracts flies.
News at 11.

Coercion for the sake of coercion?

[BishopBerkeley]

CCP is probably forcing the Chinese to use Ernie so that the surveillance state can transition to a more innocuous disguise.

Meaningless

[TwistedGreen]

As usual, you can't trust any press release that comes out of China, so this article means nothing.