Ernie

Last week, I went on the CBC News podcast “Nothing Is Foreign” to talk about the draft regulation—and what it means for the Chinese government to take such quick action on a still-very-new technology.  As I said in the podcast, I see the draft regulation as a mixture of sensible restrictions on AI risks and a continuation of China’s strong government tradition of aggressive intervention in the tech industry. Many of the clauses in the draft regulation are principles that AI critics are advocating for in the West: data…

Baidu's CEO Robin Li recently announced that the company is gearing up for the…

Too Long; Didn't ReadThis is a science fiction comic featuring art that is both mine or stolen and that of the Deep Dream generative AI. I hold copyrights on the artwork and text, but you are welcome to use either as you wish. The story is about Cowboy Bob and his sidekicks Chico and Ernie. Too Long; Didn't ReadThis is a science fiction comic featuring art that is both mine or stolen and that of the Deep Dream generative AI. I hold copyrights on the artwork and text, but you are welcome to use either as you wish. The…

Image: AP News (AP)Chinese tech giant Baidu is suing Apple and several app developers, claiming the developers created fake copies of the Chinese tech giant’s Ernie AI chatbot and that Apple allowed them into its tightly controlled App Store. The lawsuit, first reported by Reuters, claims Apple greenlit the counterfeit applications for users less than a month after Baidu introduced the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. How To Prep Your iPhone or iPad Before Selling“At present, Ernie does not have any official app,”…

Concerning phony copies of its Ernie bot app, which can be downloaded from the Apple App Store.  Read more tech news Good morning tech fam; here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Google and Amazon struggle to lay off workers in Europe. Fast-Track Insights: Prosecutor General Orders Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Give Russia Access to User Data Over fake copies of its Ernie bot app, which is available on Apple’s App Store, the Chinese search engine giant Baidu has sued Apple and “relevant”…

Chinese tech giant Baidu has sued Apple and a number of app developers over fake versions of its AI chatbot that have appeared in the App Store. Baidu unveiled its own version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbots in March, but unlike its competitors, Ernie, as it’s called, is not yet widely available for public use. Instead, anyone interested in taking Ernie for a spin have to apply to Baidu for a special code and then wait to see if they get selected. After discovering several bogus apps in…

Baidu, the Chinese search engine, has taken legal action against both Apple and "relevant" app developers for…

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has filed lawsuits against "relevant" app developers and Apple Inc over fake copies of its Ernie bot app available on Apple's app store. The company's artificial intelligence powered Ernie bot, launched last month, has been touted as China's closest answer to the U.S.-developed chatbot ChatGPT. Baidu said it had lodged lawsuits in Beijing Haidian People's Court against the developers behind the counterfeit applications of its Ernie bot and the Apple company. "At present, Ernie does not…

Google's chief executive officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai told The Wall Street Journal in an interview that conversational AI would become an integral part of the world’s largest search engine. “The opportunity space, if anything, is bigger than before. Will people be able to ask questions to Google and engage with LLMs in the context of search? Absolutely,” he saidA large language model (LLM) is a machine learning model that performs a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including generating and classifying…

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has filed lawsuits against "relevant" app developers and Apple over fake copies of its Ernie bot app available on Apple's App Store.The company's artificial intelligence powered Ernie bot, launched last month, has been touted as China's closest answer to the US-developed chatbot ChatGPT.Baidu said it had lodged lawsuits in Beijing Haidian People's Court against the developers behind the counterfeit applications of its Ernie bot and the Apple company."At present, Ernie does not have any…