Alibaba steps up with ChatGPT-like model called Tongyi Qianwen | into the AI ​​arms race Science and technology news

Alibaba is the latest Chinese tech giant to unveil its own ChatGPT-like AI model.

Tongyi Qianwen, which translates to “Truth of a Thousand Questions,” will be added to the company’s existing apps, including workplace messaging and a voice assistant.

How OpenAI’s GPT technologyadded to websites from Microsoft’s Bing For travel planner Expedia, the chatbot is also offered to customers for use in their own products and services.

A video demonstration showed him summarizing meetings, writing emails and giving shopping tips.

Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang said it will bring “major changes in the way we produce, work and live our lives.”

It follows the debut of a similar technology by Chinese search giant Baidu last monththat has been shown to understand different languages, answer questions, perform mathematical calculations and generate images.

All these publications – including Google’s bard – are known as large language models that are trained on massive amounts of textual data to generate answers, summarize information, and have realistic conversations.

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The success of OpenAI’s GPT model, which was recently updated to improve the chatbot’s ability to understand and complete tasks has sparked an AI arms race around the world.

In China The releases of Alibaba and Baidu alone are being rivaled by similar products like media giant Tencent, gaming company NetEase, e-commerce platforms, universities, and dedicated AI firms.

The Chinese government has published draft rules outlining how such generative AI services should be managed, specifically that they should adhere to “core socialist values”.

It’s a sign the technology must adhere to the same strict restrictions as the rest of the internet in China.

They should also protect user data according to draft rules published by the country’s Cyberspace Administration or risk criminal investigation and fines.

Analyst Charlie Chai said the rules could slow progress AI space “in exchange for a more orderly and socially responsible use of technology”.

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It comes after Elon Musk joined a group of AI experts in calling for a pause in Generative AI training.

Her letter, issued by the Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, warned: “AI systems with competitive human intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity.”

March, Italy became the first country Ban ChatGPT entirely while the country’s data protection authorities investigated the collection of user information.

Italian authorities said the bot, which has more than 100 million monthly users, will be blocked pending an investigation into an alleged breach of its data collection rules and a failure to verify the ages of its users.

EU law enforcement agency Europol also warned that ChatGPT could be used by criminals and to spread disinformation.

Elsewhere, schools in New York and universities in Japan have also restricted ChatGPT over concerns students might use it to write assignments for them.