Employees working round-the-clock say Baidu's AI chatbot, China's first ChatGPT equivalent, is still in training mode ahead of a planned March 16 rollout
, employees at China’s biggest search-engine operator said they are racing to meet the deadline with the chatbot still struggling to perform some basic functions.
in China’s tech industry, some of the people said. Some employees said they haven’t had sufficient time to build a well-functioning product.roll out the product in stages, first opening it up for public testing to a restricted pool of users, people A successful launch could help catapult the company, which has fallen out of investor favor in recent years, back into the ranks of China’s most prominent technology companies. Failure could lead it to suffer a similar fate as Google, which stuck to its relatively cautious approach to AI until recently,Baidu declined to comment.
This week, Wang Zhigang, China’s minister of science and technology, said that developing a ChatGPT-like product would be difficult. In late December, as buzz grew over ChatGPT, Baidu Chief Executive Robin Li spoke to employees about the new advancement. “We have such cool technology, but can we turn it into a product that everyone needs?” he said,seen by The Wall Street Journal. “This is actually the hardest step, but also the greatest and most influential.”
A third has been to improve its factual accuracy—a technical limitation of large language models, which string together sentences based on the probabilities that different words might appear together rather than on pieces of information. This limitation also makes such models difficult to control to avoid sensitive topics, a hurdle for censorship.Each step takes time, the people said.
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