Tokyo’s regulator is one of many around the world scrambling to establish rules over the use of generative artificial intelligence
The tech giant will also launch a competition for developers to build applications off its Ernie bot in the race to catch up with Microsoft’s ChatGPT
Wang Weibao, who was indicted by the US this week for stealing sensitive technology, stole “the entirety of Apple’s 'autonomous' source code”
Authorities have detained a man for generating a fake story that claimed a train crash killed nine construction workers in a city in China's northwestern Gansu
Pony.ai started driverless testing in Guangzhou in June 2021 and has accumulated nearly 200,000 fee-charging robotaxi orders globally as of this month
"Until our company's official announcement, any Ernie app you see from App Store or other stores are fake," the Chinese search engine giant said in a statement
The format was changed to satisfy the 'strong demand' from 120,000 companies that had applied to test Ernie Bot, the search giant said
Ernie bot responded in a similar manner to questions about China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and the treatment of Uyghur Muslims
"Ernie Bot is not a tool of confrontation between China and the United States," said Baidu CEO Robin Li.
Users would become more dependent on the Baidu search engine once it is embedded with the AI-powered chatbot, company CEO Robin Li told reporters
Baidu also said earlier this week it will soon finish internal testing for a ChatGPT alternative called 'Ernie Bot'
Baidu will launch the chatbot as a standalone application and will gradually merge the service into its search engine