+ He’s determined to allay fears that TikTok shares data with China’s government. I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.ġ TikTok is preparing to testify before US CongressĬEO Shou Zi Chew has warned politicians that banning TikTok could harm the US economy. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Zeyi’s story is from China Report, MIT Technology Review’s weekly newsletter examining power and tech in China. More Chinese reporters gained access to the chatbot, and there’s been a general realization that Ernie Bot is probably good enough for the Chinese market. Chinese publications with testing access ridiculed the chatbot’s performance, social media users mocked it with memes, and Baidu’s stock dropped by 6.4%.īut a curious thing has happened since last week’s launch: Ernie Bot’s reputation seems to have bounced back. When Baidu revealed Ernie Bot last week, the first Chinese rival to ChatGPT was met with an almost overwhelming wave of disappointment. The bearable mediocrity of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor The company is now making the chatbot available for free to early users who sign up to a waitlist, to help test and improve the technology in what they say is still an experiment.īut experts worry that pitching Bard as an experiment is a PR trick that larger companies use to reach millions of customers while also removing themselves from accountability if anything goes wrong.

Google wants Bard to become an integral part of the Google Search experience.

But it is still designed to help users brainstorm and answer queries. Unlike Bing Chat, Bard does not look up search results-all the information it returns is generated by the model itself. Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Google just launched Bard, its answer to ChatGPT-and it wants you to make it better

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