Latest AI Chatbot from Alibaba to Take on ChatGPT

 

A GPT-like AI-powered language model called Tongyi Qianwen was unveiled by the Chinese company Alibaba on Tuesday. Beijing also unveiled a draught law stating that developing AI must "reflect socialist values."

In a video demonstration on Tuesday, the new AI model Tongyi Qianwen, which translates to "truth from a thousand questions," was demonstrated to be able to design invitation letters, summarise meeting notes, and advise users on what kind of makeup to buy.

According to Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba Group, "we are at a technological turning point driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses across all sectors have started to embrace intelligence transformation to stay ahead of the game."

The approach will be incorporated into Tmall Genie, Alibaba's voice assistant, and DingTalk, its enterprise messaging app. Zhang claims that Tongyi Qianwen will "bring about big changes to the way we produce, the way we work, and the way we live our lives." She is capable of writing business proposals and emails.

As a preview for the new chatbot last Friday, Alibaba posted a message on social media with the following message: "Hello, my name is Tongyi Qianwen, this is our first time meeting, I welcome your feedback."

The Race Against the AI Chatbot Generative AI is a subset of artificial intelligence that can produce original content, such text or images, by learning from the data it is trained on.

Since the Microsoft-backed OpenAI debuted the ChatGPT chatbot phenomenon last year, interest in generative AI has increased.

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Since then, other businesses have hurried to release analogous solutions, like Google's Bard and Baidu Inc.'s Ernie Bot. Along with a number of new AI products, the Chinese AI company SenseTime unveiled SenseChat on Monday.

A stricter AI policy in China

In addition, China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) unveiled draught regulations for generative AI services on Tuesday. This comes as more businesses, like Alibaba, provide publicly accessible AI models.

Before being made available to the general public, the regulator wants businesses to submit their AI products for a "security assessment."

China may encourage innovation and the adoption of dependable software, but the CAC stated that the content produced by generative AI "must reflect core socialist values."

The proposed rule would force generative AI service providers to request users' true names and mandate that they take precautions to avoid discrimination when formulating algorithms and gathering training data.    

The new regulations are anticipated to take effect later this year, and the public has until May 10 to comment on the new proposal.

Despite the fact that ChatGPT cannot be used in China, its popularity has been growing as people utilise virtual private networks to get around the restriction.