Baidu’s ChatGPT-style bot, ERNIE Bot, or Wnxin Yiyan in Chinese, was developed completely in-house, Wang Haifeng, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the renowned Chinese search engine informed during a China Media Group’s TV program on Saturday. This development took place since 1.0 version arrived in 2019, and the bot upgraded to a big language model, with natural language, visual and biological computing models included. The algorithms used for this project have been patented, published in papers and made available for public use according to Wang.
During the TV show, Wang exhibited some of the abilities of the chatbot in creative writing, reading, imaginative illustrations, business correspondence creation, math and language comprehension. ERNIE can recognize and produce text as it has already processed trillions of words. The videos feature of machine is not available right now.
The primary technologies applied to this chatbot can be comparable to other larger language models; however, three particular technologies stand out, such as knowledge upgrade, search, and conversation. ERNIE’s capacity to comprehend strategic thinking, creative exploration and searching with the largest Baidu search engine is quite improved.
Recently, the growth of AI chatbots had spread worries about job replacement. Wang commented on this; he suggested that the advancements will not affect the availability of jobs and individuals would get chances to try out their talent. He also mentioned about the risk of security breaches. According to him, as the number of users of any product/service is increasing, the security issues will also increase and can be only confronted if every entity associated with the problem take action. App developers need to stick to regulations and ethics, and also should create surveillance systems to tackle the security issues. Baidu also has implemented five layers of defense in data collection, processing, model training and application, to curb the security problems.
Wang Haifeng is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Chinese search engine Baidu. Before Wang become CTO of Baidu, he served as a senior expert advisor for computer science at the company. He has been a key influence in the creation of the ERNIE Bot, the revolutionary ChatGPT-style AI chatbot developed by Baidu itself. Wang’s expertise in the areas of natural language, visual computing as well as biological computing has greatly contributed to the successful development of the bot. His words and efforts also extends to the safety of the system, and he believes that education and creativity should be valued along with the expansion of AI technology.
