Chinese search giant Baidu is planning to launch an AI chatbot similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. A person close to the development confirmed that the application will roll out in March and would be fixed in Baidu’s primary search services.
According to a Bloomberg report, the source also revealed that Baidu’s ERNIE system will form the base of the upcoming chatbot tool. For the unversed, ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration) is a machine-learning model trained on data for many years.
ERNIE has garnered appreciation in the NLP community for outperforming Google’s BERT in various Chinese language tasks.