As expected, China also wants to compete in the thriving Artificial Intelligence technology market. In fact, Ernie AI is an iteration created in the Middle Kingdom, whose creators claim it has superior qualities compared to the most popular AI of recent times, ChatGPT, something not everyone could say.
The Chinese company, Baidu, is the creator of Ernie AI, an iteration that, in terms of development, would be on par with or even have surpassed the current capabilities of ChatGPT, despite its recent leap to GPT-4. There is no doubt that an AI of that caliber would be a significant milestone in the technology industry.
Ernie AI, Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence
Baidu, known as the ‘Google’ of China, has also been developing an Artificial Intelligence capable of delivering outstanding results, according to the company’s founder, Robin Li. ‘Ernie is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4,’ Li himself asserts. In fact, according to internal studies, the previous version of Ernie was also superior to GPT-4 in many areas.
Thus, there is no doubt that Ernie could make a strong entry into China’s technological ecosystem, which often prefers domestic systems over foreign competition. But if their AI is also the most effective, they would have no reason to consider other systems in the market, especially in a more language-constrained environment like that of China.
The race to lead the AI niche
In this way, the Chinese company Baidu officially joins the long list of major technology companies that are striving to achieve the goal of creating an AI capable of revolutionizing the world as quickly as possible. Alongside Baidu, companies such as Microsoft (both directly and through its subsidiary Open AI), Google, Slack, Meta, and many others are also competing.
However, every advancement in AI also comes with its risks. Progress in this field also involves real dangers for all types of users, such as mass layoffs in automation processes, crimes like ‘deepfakes’ (stripping people through realistic AI-generated simulations), creation of fake evidence, identity theft, and much more. It’s important to appeal to the responsibility of users, but also to that of the creators to mitigate these kinds of social harms
