Launch follows those of SenseTime and Baidu as Chinese companies race to catch up with US on artificial intelligence
On Monday, Xu Li, chief executive of Chinese AI software leader SenseTime, gave a live demonstration as he unveiled its SenseChat bot, which was able to write an email and tell a story about a cat catching a fish.
Alibaba’s efforts are tucked inside its cloud arm, which Zhang personally took control of in December amid slumping growth.While Alibaba has repeatedly trumpeted cloud computing’s importance to its future, the business has yet to contribute meaningfully to the group’s results. Annual revenue growth slowed to 3 per cent in the fourth quarter, and the unit was barely profitable.
Tongyi was opened to corporate clients for testing last Friday. Early user feedback posted online shows the chatbot can write poems in both Chinese and French and solve basic mathematical problems but struggles with simple logic. When asked the same question, ChatGPT says it does not understand the question and notes concrete is not edible. Other Chinese user tests show Ernie and Tongyi making up facts about non-existent people.
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