While company founder Robin Li gave a first glimpse of the capabilities of the application, dubbed Ernie Bot, on Thursday, the company’s shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange fell sharply and ended trading down more than six percent.
“I can’t say we’re fully ready,” Li said at the webcast presentation. Ernie Bot will be revealed because the market demands it. ChatGPT is a “high bar”. Some of the capabilities, reminiscent of US company OpenAI, were then demonstrated using pre-recorded demonstrations.
In a kind of chat field you can ask questions to the program and get answers. Work orders are also possible. For example, it was shown how Ernie-Bot summarizes a well-known Chinese science fiction novel, writes a poem and writes an advertising text. However, an important function of ChatGPT, the writing of program code, was not part of the presentation.
OpenAI triggered a real hype with its ChatGPT tool, which was presented in November last year. The company, in which the US group Microsoft has a stake, only published a further improved version on Tuesday. Alongside the USA, China is considered a leader in research into artificial intelligence. Corporations like Baidu have invested billions in this area in recent years./jpt/DP/mis
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