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China Can Quickly Catch Up to US AI, Says Venture Veteran
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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China Can Quickly Catch Up to US AI, Says Venture Veteran

[ad_1] China can match the US in artificial intelligence thanks to the expertise of companies from Alibaba to Baidu, joining a global tech transformation that will dwarf the mobile revolution, according to industry pioneer Kai-Fu Lee.American companies like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. have the clear lead now, but much as it did in the early days of the internet, China will catch up through quick iteration from its private sector, said Lee. The bestselling author on AI, who founded Sinovation Ventures more than a decade ago, has been at the heart of China's growing adoption of the technology and backed some of its biggest startups in the field like Megvii and Meitu. Firms around the world are rushing to show off their latest AI creations since OpenAI Inc.'s ChatGPT demonstrated th...
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Tech rivals chase ChatGPT as AI race ramps up
3Mar By adminNo Comments
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Tech rivals chase ChatGPT as AI race ramps up

[ad_1] Chasing Microsoft, global tech giants have rolled out announcements on how they will implement ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence into their world leading platforms and applications, with YouTube the latest to present plans.Here is a roundup of how the world's biggest tech companies plan to surf the AI wave: Microsoft has gone the furthest in pushing out generative AI to consumers and has pledged to pump billions of dollars into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The Windows-maker is aggressively testing the latest version of OpenAI's GPT-3 technology in a beefed up Bing search engine, with plans to add the tool to the easily accessible Windows 11 taskbar.Microsoft is also planning to add GPT-3 to its Office suite, including Word, as well as the Edge browser. The rollouts gua...
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From state media to a Shaolin temple, Baidu’s ChatGPT-style bot sees partner rush
16Feb By adminNo Comments
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From state media to a Shaolin temple, Baidu’s ChatGPT-style bot sees partner rush

[ad_1] Chinese organisations, from state media to a Shaolin temple, said on Tuesday they have signed partnerships with Baidu's ChatGPT-style project, ahead of an expected launch next month.The Chinese search engine giant last week announced that it would complete internal testing of its “Ernie Bot" in March. It is a large artificial intelligence (AI) powered language model that seeks to rival Microsoft-backed OpenAI's hit chatbot. China's Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Chinese kung fu, said in a statement it would work with Baidu to integrate Ernie into its operations with the purpose of creating an AI-driven content environment. Over a dozen Chinese media outlets also said they had entered tie-ups with Baidu, including the state-owned Shanghai Securities Journal. The journal said that ...
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Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing
10Feb By adminNo Comments
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Bard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech’s AI race will transform search – and all of computing

[ad_1] Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice. After wading past half a page of adverts, you get a load of links to articles on moving companies. You click on one of the links and finally read about how to pick a good 'un. But not for much longer. In a major reveal this week, Google announced plans to add its latest AI chatbot, LaMDA, to the Google search engine. The chatbot has been called the “Bard”. I hope William Shakespeare's descendants sue. It's not the job of arguably the greatest writer of the English language to answer mundane questions about how to find a good moving company. But he will. Ask the Bard how, and he will reply a...
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot
30Jan By adminNo Comments
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Chinese Search Giant Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style Bot

[ad_1] Baidu Inc. is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter, potentially China’s most prominent entry in a race touched off by the tech phenomenon. Baidu Inc. is planning to roll out an artificial intelligence chatbot service similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter, potentially China's most prominent entry in a race touched off by the tech phenomenon. China's largest search engine company plans to debut a ChatGPT-style application in March, initially embedding it into its main search services, said the person, asking to remain unidentified discussing private information. The tool, whose name hasn't been decided, will allow users to get conversatio...
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