Baidu, the Chinese search engine giant, unveiled its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot known as Ernie Bot. The chatbot is a rival to U.S. research lab OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and was developed using Baidu’s AI-driven deep learning model. The introduction of Ernie Bot comes two days after Alphabet Inc’s Google unveiled a flurry of AI tools for its email, collaboration and cloud software, and Microsoft is expected to make a similar announcement later on Thursday.
