Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Thursday its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot was now open to the public at large.
That signaled a green light from Beijing, and another indication of a more relaxed policy stance on artificial intelligence.
During an earnings call last week, Baidu CEO Robin Li called new AI rules "more pro-innovation than regulation" and said the company was "quite optimistic about the future for a better regulatory environment."Pictured here is the Ernie bot mobile interface, with the Baidu search engine home page in the background.announced Thursday its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot was now open to the public at large.
That signaled a green light from Beijing, and another indication of a more relaxed policy stance on artificial intelligence.. Initial access was limited to the company's business partners and people who had first joined a waitlist — whose numbers swelled to more than 1.2 million before Baidu stopped disclosing them.
As of Wednesday, CNBC was able to access Ernie bot without the prior restriction of having to enter a Chinese ID number. since OpenAI's ChatGPT surged in popularity worldwide earlier this year. ChatGPT isn't officially allowed in China, where access to Google and Facebook is blocked.
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