Baidu’s ERNIE Bot Generative AI now Available to the Public for Deployment
## Baidu’s Generative AI Product, ERNIE Bot, Now Available to the Public
Chinese tech giant Baidu has recently made its generative AI product, ERNIE Bot, accessible to the public through various app stores and its website. ERNIE Bot is a powerful AI system capable of generating text, images, and videos based on natural language inputs. It is powered by ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration), a deep learning model developed by researchers at Tsinghua University.
### Introduction to ERNIE and its Evolution
– ERNIE was first introduced and made open-source in 2019 to showcase its capabilities in natural language understanding by combining text and knowledge graph data.
– Baidu later released ERNIE 2.0, which became the first model to surpass a score of 90 on the GLUE benchmark for evaluating natural language understanding systems.
– In 2021, Baidu’s researchers presented ERNIE 3.0, claiming that it surpasses human performance on the SuperGLUE natural language benchmark, outperforming efforts from Google and Microsoft.
### Functionality and Practical Applications of ERNIE Bot
Baidu’s CEO, Robin Li, states that opening ERNIE Bot to the public will enable the company to receive human feedback and enhance the user experience. ERNIE Bot showcases four core abilities of generative AI: understanding, generation, reasoning, and memory. It offers various applications, including:
– Writing assistance
– Learning support
– Entertainment recommendations
– Work-related tasks
Baidu unveiled ERNIE Bot in March of this year, demonstrating its capabilities in different domains such as literature, art, and science. For instance:
– ERNIE Bot can summarize a sci-fi novel and provide suggestions for expanding the story.
– It can generate images and videos based on text inputs, such as creating fictional character portraits or movie scenes.
### Advancements and Milestones Achieved by ERNIE Bot
Earlier this month, Baidu announced that ERNIE Bot’s training throughput had tripled since its introduction in March. It has also achieved new milestones in data analysis and visualization. Some notable improvements include:
– Faster generation of results
– Ability to handle image inputs
– Analyzing images, such as pie charts, and generating natural language summaries of the data
### China’s Regulations on Generative AI – “Guardrails”
China’s government has published rules governing generative AI in the country, ensuring responsible and ethical usage. These rules cover several aspects of generative AI, including content, data, technology, fairness, and licensing. Some key requirements include:
– Adherence to socialist core values
– Avoidance of content that undermines national unity, social stability, and state power
– Prohibition of promoting ethnic hatred, violence, obscenity, false information, and harmful content
– Emphasis on developing digital public goods for generative AI, promoting data resource platforms, and collaborative sharing of hardware for model-making
– Use of secure and proven tools in AI development, respecting intellectual property rights and obtaining consent for personal data usage
– Focus on improving the quality, authenticity, accuracy, objectivity, and diversity of training data
– Creation of non-discriminatory algorithms and obtaining necessary licenses for generative AI services
China’s regulations not only impact domestic AI operators but also serve as an example for international discussions on AI governance and ethical practices.
Overall, ERNIE Bot’s availability to the public marks a significant step for Baidu and showcases advancements in generative AI technologies.
