Baidu CEO Robin Li adds Ernie Bot's application programming interface is being used 200 million times everyday, meaning the chatbot was requested by its user to conduct tasks that many times a day
China's Baidu said on Tuesday its artificial intelligence chatbot “Ernie Bot” has garnered more than 200 million users as it seeks to remain China’s most popular ChatGPT-like chatbot amid increasingly fierce competition.Robin Li, CEO of the Chinese internet company, revealed the new milestone at a conference in Shenzhen on Tuesday. The chatbot was released to the public eight months ago.The company last shared its user base number in December when it reached over 100 million.Li also said that...
China's ChatGPT-like "Ernie Bot" reaches a daunting milestone after it recorded 200 million users.
The seventh-annual report on the global state of artificial intelligence from Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence offers some concerning thoughts for society: the technology's spiraling costs and poor measurement of its risks. According to the report, "The AI Index 2024 Annual Report," published Monday by HAI, the cost of training large language models such as OpenAI's GPT-4 -- the so-called foundation models used to develop other programs -- is...
Meta has started to roll out its WhatsApp generative AI tool to select
AI chatbots are slowly but surely infiltrating every app we use, and the latest one is WhatsApp. Meta is now testing the addition of the Meta AI chatbot to the messaging service, a test that's currently going on inside the latest version of the app for both iOS and Android. Right now, the test is only available to those who have English set as their WhatsApp language. It's a limited test, however, which means not everyone that's eligible can see the Meta AI chatbot in WhatsApp yet. So far,...
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On Friday, people around the web noticed a new addition to their Instagram: Meta AI, the company’s general-purpose, AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images with a simple text prompt. The move isn’t surprising. Meta revealed Meta AI in September 2023 and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, so adding it to Instagram seems like a no-brainer. Just got access to Meta AI on one of my Instagram...
The number of migrants arrested at the southern border has plummeted in recent weeks to the lowest levels seen in President Joe Biden’s three years in office, easing for the moment a crisis that has touched every part of the United States. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) divulged during a House Appropriations Committee hearing this week […]
Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters.Gangs run sextortion scams by persuading people to provide explicit images of themselves and then threatening to release them to the public unless they receive money.Meta said it was testing an AI-driven "nudity protection" tool that would find and blur images containing nudity that were...
Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by U.S. politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters. Gangs run sextortion scams by persuading people to provide explicit images of themselves and then threatening
Oberweis Dairy, based in North Aurora, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but now say they have a prospective buyer.