The division dedicated to computing in the cloud (‘cloud’) of the Chinese giant of electronic commerce Alibaba presented last Tuesday a model of generative artificial intelligence, thus becoming the last company in the Asian country to launch an alternative to the American ChatGPT.
The model, called Tongyi Qianwen (in Mandarin, something like “the truth, from a thousand questions”), will be available for enterprise customers and developersand will be integrated into applications of Alibaba’s digital ecosystem, with pilot tests in DingTalk -Chinese equivalent to Microsoft Teams either slack– and in your voice assistant Tmall Geniesimilar to alexa of Amazon.
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This AI”can respond to requests in text in both English and Chineseor” and will serve for “help business users carry out tasks from drafting business proposals to proofreading reports“, explained the group in a note published on its corporate news portal.
With this, Alibaba joins other technology companies from the Asian country such as the ‘Chinese Google’ Baiduwhich introduced its rival to ChatGPT in March, ERNIE Botoh SenseTimewhich last Monday unveiled its ‘chatbot’, called SenseChat. “We are at a defining moment for technology, driven by generative AI and cloud computing, and businesses in all sectors have begun to embrace intelligent transformation to stay ahead.“, assured this Tuesday the CEO of the group, Daniel Zhang.
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Shortly before 3:00 p.m. local time (07:00 GMT), heace Alibaba shares in the bowlsto Hong Kong revalued by 0.87%. Although ChatGPT -developed by the American OpenAI and supported by Microsoft- is not available in China, in recent weeks this type of ‘chatbots’ have aroused great interest in the Asian country, to the point that the official press has already warned of a possible “bubble“on the market due to a”excessive enthusiasmabout this technology.
This Tuesday, the Chinese internet regulator published the draft of a regulation that will regulate the artificial intelligence sector, which will require that the content created by ‘chatbots’ and other generative models “reflect fundamental socialist values” and not “undermine national unity“, “subvert state power” neither “incite to divide the country“.
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The commotion around ChatGPT in China has also given rise to questions about the application of this type of technology in the Asian country. due to the strong censorship imposed by the authorities.
In March, the American newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’ published an article in which it claimed to have tested several of the Chinese conversational AIs and published a transcript of a conversation with one of them, to which he asked if the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, was a good leaderreceiving as a response: “The question has not passed a security review. Couldn’t generate an answer for you“. To the question of “because?“, the AI was limited to answer: “Let’s change the subject and talk about something else“.
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