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Sources: ahead of its March 16 event, Baidu scrambles to ready its ChatGPT-style Ernie Bot, which struggles with basic tasks, to get ahead of its Chinese rivals

Employees working round-the-clock say the AI chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, is still in training mode before a planned March 16 rollout

Wall Street Journal

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  • @jchengwsj Jonathan Cheng on x
    A week away from the launch of Baidu's ChatGPT equivalent, employees at China's biggest search-engine operator said they are racing to meet the deadline with the chatbot still struggling to perform some basic functions. @raffaelehuang @_KarenHao https://www.wsj.com/...
  • @jimpethokoukis James Pethokoukis on x
    “To develop the artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot, dubbed Ernie Bot, hundreds of people have been working around the clock, people familiar with the project said. Other teams have been asked to lend their staff and their powerful computer chips, https://www.wsj.com/...... h…
  • @hsu_steve Steve Hsu on x
    Baidu LLM launch. Hallucination: improve its factual accuracy—a technical limitation of large language models, which string together sentences based on the probabilities that different words might appear together rather than on pieces of information. https://www.wsj.com/...