HONG KONG (AP) — Technology company Baidu on Monday refuted a newspaper report that said its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie was linked to Chinese military research.
The paper stated that the division had tested its artificial intelligence system on Baidu’s Ernie and on artificial intelligence firm iFlyTek’s Spark, both of which are language-based AI chatbots similar to ChatGPT.
“Ernie Bot is available to and used by the general public,” the Chinese company said in its statement.
Like ChatGPT, users can pose questions or requests to Ernie Bot, which would then generate content based on the initial prompt.
The Beijing-headquartered firm said in December that it had more than 100 million users for Ernie Bot.
Persons:
Ernie, Baidu, Ernie Bot
Organizations:
— Technology, Baidu, Hong, China Morning, People’s Liberation Army cyberwarfare, PLA Information Engineering University, China Morning Post, PLA, Huawei, U.S
Locations:
HONG KONG, Hong Kong, U.S, China, Taiwan, Beijing