ChatGPT 4 is coming, and rumors suggest massive improvements in the GPT-4 model, surpassing Bing Chat, but OpenAI warns we might be disappointed.
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Baidu to release AI generative service Ernie Bot soon
According to Baidu CEO Robin Li Baidu will release its AI generative language model Ernie bot in March. However, specific dates regarding when it will be available remains unknown, but it could come “very soon”. It is very likely that only Baidu’s users (those owning a Baidu account) will have access to Ernie.
Although Ernie has been broadly adopted by Baidu services, it has yet to open for the public.
Li previously announced that the company will launch Ernie Bot in March. The large language model was first introduced in 2019 and has been updated to the third generation. As OpenAI’s ChatGPT draws broad attention, Baidu is also jumping on the bandwagon and preparing to launch Ernie.
The Race for a Humanoid General Purpose Robot is Next
Figure comes out of Stealth.
A robot that can autonomously explore real-world environments
Roboticists have developed many advanced systems over the past decade or so, yet most of these systems still require some degree of human supervision. Ideally, future robots should explore unknown environments autonomously and independently, continuously collecting data and learning from this data.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University recently created ALAN, a robotic agent that can autonomously explore unfamiliar environments. This robot, introduced in a paper pre-published on arXiv and set to be presented at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), was found to successfully complete tasks in the real-world after a brief number of exploration trials.
“We have been interested in building an AI that learns by setting its own objectives,” Russell Mendonca, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. “By not depending on humans for supervision or guidance, such agents can keep learning in new scenarios, driven by their own curiosity. This would enable continual generalization to different domains, and discovery of increasingly complex behavior.”
