2024-01-15 23:15:00
Baidu said on Monday it had no ties to a Chinese military laboratory, following a report sent the internet services company’s shares tumbling.
Updated January 16, 2024 07:15 CST
Baidu Inc (9888.HK, BIDU) said on Monday it had no ties to a Chinese military laboratory, following a report sent the internet services company’s shares tumbling.
Baidu’s Hong Kong listing comes following the South China Morning Post reported that a research lab of the People’s Liberation Army’s Strategic Support Force was testing artificial intelligence systems on Baidu’s Ernie and iFlytek’s Spark models. The stock plunged 12%. Wenxinyiyan and Xinghuo are large language models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Baidu’s U.S. stocks were not traded on Monday as the U.S. stock market was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Baidu noted in a statement that the academic paper, published by academics at a Chinese university, describes how the authors built prompts and received responses from large language models that they use whenever a user interacts with a generative AI tool. All functions can be used. Baidu has not participated in any commercial cooperation, nor has it provided any customized services with the authors of this academic paper or any institutions to which they belong. The statement also noted that the South China Morning Post corrected its original report.
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Baidu Inc (9888.HK, BIDU) said on Monday it had no ties to a Chinese military laboratory, following a report sent the internet services company’s shares tumbling.
Baidu’s Hong Kong listing comes following the South China Morning Post reported that a research lab of the People’s Liberation Army’s Strategic Support Force was testing artificial intelligence systems on Baidu’s Ernie and iFlytek’s Spark models. The stock plunged 12%. Wenxinyiyan and Xinghuo are large language models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Baidu’s U.S. stocks were not traded on Monday as the U.S. stock market was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Baidu noted in a statement that the academic paper, published by academics at a Chinese university, describes how the authors built prompts and received responses from large language models that they use whenever a user interacts with a generative AI tool. All functions can be used. Baidu has not participated in any commercial cooperation, nor has it provided any customized services with the authors of this academic paper or any institutions to which they belong. The statement also noted that the South China Morning Post corrected its original report.
The corrected report said the PLA lab tested its system on a Baidu model, correcting an initial report that there was a physical link between the artificial intelligence system and Baidu’s Wen Xinyiyan.
The newspaper reported that the academic paper said the artificial intelligence simulated the 2011 U.S. invasion of Libya and successfully predicted the U.S. military’s next move.
(This article is translated from MarketWatch. MarketWatch is operated by Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, but MarketWatch is independent from Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.)
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