Hangzhou Ji Yue Automobile Technology Co., Ltd. , trading as Ji Yue ( Chinese : 极越 ), is a Chinese manufacturer of intelligent electric passenger cars based in Shanghai . It was established in 2023 as a partnership between Geely and Baidu .
75-585: In April 2021, Baidu , a Chinese technology company, announced a partnership with Geely , a major automaker in China. This collaboration resulted in the formation of Jidu Auto, a joint venture headquartered in Shanghai. The venture received a $ 7.7 billion investment aimed at developing technologically advanced electric vehicles over the next five years, with plans to employ up to 3,000 people, including 500 software engineers. Jidu Auto's vehicles are intended to feature
150-617: A Raspberry Pi 4 and one version of Stable Diffusion can run on an iPhone 11 . Larger models with tens of billions of parameters can run on laptop or desktop computers . To achieve an acceptable speed, models of this size may require accelerators such as the GPU chips produced by NVIDIA and AMD or the Neural Engine included in Apple silicon products. For example, the 65 billion parameter version of LLaMA can be configured to run on
225-413: A $ 1.5billion autonomous driving fund to invest in as many as 100 autonomous driving projects over the ensuing three years. At the same time, Apollo open-source software version 1.5 was also launched. In June 2017, Baidu partnered with Continental and Bosch , auto industry suppliers, on automated driving and connected cars. In July 2017, Baidu GBU entered into a partnership with Snap Inc. to act as
300-585: A U.S.-traded Chinese company in Hong Kong since JD.com's listing the previous June. In August 2021 Baidu revealed a new Robocar concept said to be capable of Level 5 autonomous driving. It also comes with the latest second-generation AI chip that can analyse the internal and external surroundings to provide predictive suggestions to proactively serve the needs of passengers. In June 2022, Jidu Auto , an intelligent electric vehicle company originally backed by Baidu and Geely unveiled its first concept ROBO-01 in
375-420: A data set. The capabilities of a generative AI system depend on the modality or type of the data set used. Generative AI can be either unimodal or multimodal ; unimodal systems take only one type of input, whereas multimodal systems can take more than one type of input. For example, one version of OpenAI 's GPT-4 accepts both text and image inputs. Text generated by Bing Chat , prompted with
450-494: A debate about whether artists should get royalties from audio deepfakes. Many AI music generators have been created that can be generated using a text phrase, genre options, and looped libraries of bars and riffs . Generative AI trained on annotated video can generate temporally-coherent, detailed and photorealistic video clips. Examples include Sora by OpenAI , Gen-1 and Gen-2 by Runway , and Make-A-Video by Meta Platforms. Generative AI can also be trained on
525-589: A definitive merger agreement to acquire 91 Wireless Web-soft Limited from NetDragon Web-soft Inc. for $ 1.85 billion in what was reported to be the biggest deal ever in China's IT sector. The name Baidu ( 百度 ) literally means "a hundred times", or alternatively, "countless times". It is a quote from the last line of Xin Qiji 's ( 辛弃疾 ) classical poem "Green Jade Table in The Lantern Festival" ( 青玉案·元夕 ) saying: "Having searched hundreds of times in
600-844: A desktop PC. The advantages of running generative AI locally include protection of privacy and intellectual property , and avoidance of rate limiting and censorship . The subreddit r/LocalLLaMA in particular focuses on using consumer -grade gaming graphics cards through such techniques as compression . That forum is one of only two sources Andrej Karpathy trusts for language model benchmarks . Yann LeCun has advocated open-source models for their value to vertical applications and for improving AI safety . Language models with hundreds of billions of parameters, such as GPT-4 or PaLM , typically run on datacenter computers equipped with arrays of GPUs (such as NVIDIA's H100 ) or AI accelerator chips (such as Google's TPU ). These very large models are typically accessed as cloud services over
675-587: A fleet of over 400 driverless vehicles in Wuhan. On 12 January 2010, Baidu.com's DNS records in the United States were altered such that browsers to baidu.com were redirected to a website purporting to be the Iranian Cyber Army , thought to be behind the attack on Twitter during the 2009 Iranian election protests , making the proper site unusable for four hours. Internet users were met with
750-412: A guideline that generative AI must "adhere to socialist core values". Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Midjourney are trained on large, publicly available datasets that include copyrighted works. AI developers have argued that such training is protected under fair use , while copyright holders have argued that it infringes their rights. Proponents of fair use training have argued that it
825-512: A long history of being the most active and restrictive online censor in the search arena. Documents leaked in April 2009 from an employee in Baidu's internal monitoring and censorship department show a long list of blocked websites and censored topics on Baidu search. In May 2011, activists sued Baidu in the United States for violating the U.S. Constitution by the censorship it conducts in accord with
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#1732802131801900-439: A more equitable society, proactive steps encompass mitigating biases, advocating transparency, respecting privacy and consent, and embracing diverse teams and ethical considerations. Strategies involve redirecting policy emphasis on regulation, inclusive design, and education's potential for personalized teaching to maximize benefits while minimizing harms. Generative AI models can reflect and amplify any cultural bias present in
975-434: A page saying "This site has been attacked by Iranian Cyber Army ". Chinese hackers later responded by attacking Iranian websites and leaving messages. Baidu later launched legal action against Register.com for gross negligence after it was revealed that Register.com's technical support staff changed the email address for Baidu.com on the request of an unnamed individual, despite failing security verification procedures. Once
1050-484: A person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else's likeness using artificial neural networks . Deepfakes have garnered widespread attention and concerns for their uses in deepfake celebrity pornographic videos , revenge porn , fake news , hoaxes , health disinformation , financial fraud , and covert foreign election interference . This has elicited responses from both industry and government to detect and limit their use. In July 2023,
1125-426: A probabilistic text generator. The academic discipline of artificial intelligence was established at a research workshop held at Dartmouth College in 1956 and has experienced several waves of advancement and optimism in the decades since. Artificial Intelligence research began in the 1950s with works like Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) and the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI . Since
1200-574: A prototype for a new model, a luxury sedan, at the Guangzhou Auto Show. In December 2022, Jidu Auto underwent changes in its shareholder structure and leadership. In the first half of 2023, Ji Yue was formed to circumvent restrictions on car manufacturing qualifications. Jidu Auto now focuses on technology solutions, including product design and AI development, for Ji Yue vehicles. The joint venture ownership shifted to 65% for Geely and 35% for Baidu. The Jidu Robo-01, renamed to Ji Yue 01 ,
1275-737: A question about Carl Jung 's concept of shadow self Generative AI systems trained on words or word tokens include GPT-3 , GPT-4 , GPT-4o , LaMDA , LLaMA , BLOOM , Gemini and others (see List of large language models ). They are capable of natural language processing , machine translation , and natural language generation and can be used as foundation models for other tasks. Data sets include BookCorpus , Misplaced Pages , and others (see List of text corpora ). In addition to natural language text, large language models can be trained on programming language text, allowing them to generate source code for new computer programs . Examples include OpenAI Codex . Producing high-quality visual art
1350-727: A robotic theme, emphasizing automation and driver-vehicle interaction. In September 2021, images of a heavily camouflaged prototype surfaced, hinting at Jidu's first production model. A pre-production prototype was presented in June 2022, followed by the official debut of the Jidu Robo-01, a large electric crossover based on a modular platform from Geely, four months later. Pre-sales for the limited-edition model began in October 2022, with mass production slated for 2023, featuring level four semi-autonomous driving. In late 2022, Jidu Auto showcased
1425-640: A search engine. Baidu was the first Chinese search engine to receive such a license. Baidu started its Japanese language search service, run by Baidu Japan, the company's first regular service outside of China in 2008. The Japanese search engine closed on 16 March 2015. On 31 July 2012, Baidu announced that it would team up with Sina to provide mobile search results. On 18 November 2012, Baidu announced that it would be partnering with Qualcomm to offer free cloud storage to Android users with Snapdragon processors. On 2 August 2013, Baidu launched its Personal Assistant app, designed to help CEOs, managers and
1500-515: A specified goal. Generative AI planning systems used symbolic AI methods such as state space search and constraint satisfaction and were a "relatively mature" technology by the early 1990s. They were used to generate crisis action plans for military use, process plans for manufacturing and decision plans such as in prototype autonomous spacecraft. Since its inception, the field of machine learning used both discriminative models and generative models , to model and predict data. Beginning in
1575-707: A toy dinosaur when given the prompt pick up the extinct animal at a table filled with toy animals and other objects. Artificially intelligent computer-aided design (CAD) can use text-to-3D, image-to-3D, and video-to-3D to automate 3D modeling . AI-based CAD libraries could also be developed using linked open data of schematics and diagrams . AI CAD assistants are used as tools to help streamline workflow. Generative AI models are used to power chatbot products such as ChatGPT , programming tools such as GitHub Copilot , text-to-image products such as Midjourney, and text-to-video products such as Runway Gen-2. Generative AI features have been integrated into
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#17328021318011650-613: A variety of existing commercially available products such as Microsoft Office ( Microsoft Copilot ), Google Photos , and the Adobe Suite ( Adobe Firefly ). Many generative AI models are also available as open-source software , including Stable Diffusion and the LLaMA language model. Smaller generative AI models with up to a few billion parameters can run on smartphones , embedded devices, and personal computers . For example, LLaMA-7B (a version with 7 billion parameters) can run on
1725-566: A wide range of industries, including software development, healthcare, finance, entertainment, customer service, sales and marketing, art, writing, fashion, and product design. However, concerns have been raised about the potential misuse of generative AI such as cybercrime , the use of fake news or deepfakes to deceive or manipulate people, and the mass replacement of human jobs . Intellectual property law concerns also exist around generative models that are trained on and emulate copyrighted works of art. Since its inception, researchers in
1800-456: Is a transformative use and does not involve making copies of copyrighted works available to the public. Critics have argued that image generators such as Midjourney can create nearly-identical copies of some copyrighted images, and that generative AI programs compete with the content they are trained on. As of 2024, several lawsuits related to the use of copyrighted material in training are ongoing. Getty Images has sued Stability AI over
1875-617: Is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence . It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of other internet services such as Baidu App (Baidu's flagship app for search and newsfeed), Baidu Baike (an online encyclopedia ), iQIYI (a video streaming service), and Baidu Tieba (a keyword-based discussion forum). Besides its core internet search business, Baidu has diversified into several high-growth areas. The company
1950-489: Is a leading player in autonomous driving (Baidu Apollo), and smart consumer electronics (Xiaodu). With over a decade of investment in artificial intelligence , Baidu is one of the few tech companies globally to offer a full-stack AI stack, including software, chips , cloud infrastructure , foundation models , and applications . The holding company of the group is incorporated in the Cayman Islands . Baidu
2025-790: Is a prominent application of generative AI. Generative AI systems trained on sets of images with text captions include Imagen , DALL-E , Midjourney , Adobe Firefly , FLUX.1 , Stable Diffusion and others (see Artificial intelligence art , Generative art , and Synthetic media ). They are commonly used for text-to-image generation and neural style transfer . Datasets include LAION-5B and others (see List of datasets in computer vision and image processing ). Generative AI can also be trained extensively on audio clips to produce natural-sounding speech synthesis and text-to-speech capabilities, exemplified by ElevenLabs ' context-aware synthesis tools or Meta Platform 's Voicebox. Generative AI systems such as MusicLM and MusicGen can also be trained on
2100-542: Is integrating new deep learning technology into some of its apps and products, including Phoenix Nest. Phoenix Nest is Baidu's ad-bidding platform. In April 2012 Baidu JDC long live applied for a patent for its "DNA copyright recognition" technology. This technology automatically scans files that are uploaded by Internet users, and recognizes and filters out content that may violate copyright law. This allows Baidu to offer an infringement-free platform. In April 2022, Baidu announced they gained permits from China to provide
2175-452: Is still under development. Baidu will also be inserting artificial intelligence (AI) technology into smartphones, through its deep learning platform. At the same period, it has also led a joint investment of US$ 12billion with Alibaba Group , Tencent , JD.com and Didi Chuxing , acquiring 35% of China Unicom 's stakes. In October 2017, according to The Wall Street Journal , Baidu would launch self-driving buses in China in 2018. In
2250-476: Is the most used search engine in China, controlling 76.05 percent of China's market share. The number of Internet users in China had reached 705 million by the end of 2015, according to a report by the internetlivestats.com. In an August 2010 Wall Street Journal article, Baidu played down its benefit from Google 's having moved its China search service to Hong Kong , but Baidu's share of revenue in China's search-advertising market grew six percentage points in
2325-452: The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike . Voice generation AI has been seen as a potential challenge to the voice acting sector. The intersection of AI and employment concerns among underrepresented groups globally remains a critical facet. While AI promises efficiency enhancements and skill acquisition, concerns about job displacement and biased recruiting processes persist among these groups, as outlined in surveys by Fast Company . To leverage AI for
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2400-427: The supervised learning typical of discriminative models. Unsupervised learning removed the need for humans to manually label data , allowing for larger networks to be trained. In 2021, the release of DALL-E , a transformer-based pixel generative model, followed by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion marked the emergence of practical high-quality artificial intelligence art from natural language prompts. In 2022,
2475-482: The "Global DU business" portion of its overseas business, which developed a series of utility apps including ES File Explorer, DU Caller, Mobojoy, Photo Wonder and DU Recorder, etc. This business now operates independently of Baidu under the name DO Global. In March 2021, Baidu secured a secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising $ 3.1 billion. This marked the largest homecoming for
2550-475: The 1950s, artists and researchers have used artificial intelligence to create artistic works. By the early 1970s, Harold Cohen was creating and exhibiting generative AI works created by AARON , the computer program Cohen created to generate paintings. The terms generative AI planning or generative planning were used in the 1980s and 1990s to refer to AI planning systems, especially computer-aided process planning , used to generate sequences of actions to reach
2625-455: The Baidu search engine. Baidu was incorporated on 18 January 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu . In 2001, Baidu allowed advertisers to bid for ad space then pay Baidu every time a customer clicked on an ad, predating Google's approach to advertising. In 2003, Baidu launched a news search engine and picture search engine, adopting a special identification technology capable of identifying and grouping
2700-1174: The Internet. In 2022, the United States New Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductors to China imposed restrictions on exports to China of GPU and AI accelerator chips used for generative AI. Chips such as the NVIDIA A800 and the Biren Technology BR104 were developed to meet the requirements of the sanctions. There is free software on the market capable of recognizing text generated by generative artificial intelligence (such as GPTZero ), as well as images, audio or video coming from it. Potential mitigation strategies for detecting generative AI content include digital watermarking , content authentication , information retrieval , and machine learning classifier models . Despite claims of accuracy, both free and paid AI text detectors have frequently produced false positives, mistakenly accusing students of submitting AI-generated work. In
2775-652: The United States, a group of companies including OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta signed a voluntary agreement with the Biden administration in July 2023 to watermark AI-generated content. In October 2023, Executive Order 14110 applied the Defense Production Act to require all US companies to report information to the federal government when training certain high-impact AI models. In the European Union,
2850-527: The address had been changed, the individual was able to use the forgotten password feature to have Baidu's domain passwords sent directly to them, allowing them to accomplish the domain hijacking . The lawsuit was settled out of court under undisclosed terms after Register.com issued an apology. On 6 August 2012, the BBC reported that three employees of Baidu were arrested on suspicion that they accepted bribes. The bribes were allegedly paid for deleting posts from
2925-407: The articles. Baidu went public on Wall Street through a variable interest entity (VIE) based in the Cayman Islands on 5 August 2005. In 2007, Chinese government and Chinese industry sources stated that Baidu received a license from Beijing, which allows the search engine to become a full-fledged news website. Thus Baidu is able to provide its own reports, besides showing certain results as
3000-451: The audio waveforms of recorded music along with text annotations, in order to generate new musical samples based on text descriptions such as a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff . Audio deepfakes of lyrics have been generated, like the song Savages, which used AI to mimic rapper Jay-Z 's vocals. Music artist's instrumentals and lyrics are copyrighted but their voices aren't protected from regenerative AI yet, raising
3075-423: The benchmark of ‘general human intelligence’" as of 2023. In 2023, Meta released an AI model called ImageBind which combines data from text, images, video, thermal data, 3D data, audio, and motion which is expected to allow for more immersive generative AI content. According to a survey by SAS and Coleman Parkes Research, China is leading the world in adopting generative AI, with 83% of Chinese respondents using
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3150-505: The company's official ad reseller for Snapchat in Greater China , South Korea , Japan and Singapore . The partnership was extended in 2019. In September 2017, Baidu rolled out a new portable talking translator that can listen and speak in several different languages. Smaller than a typical smartphone, the 140-gram translation device can also be used as a portable Wi-Fi router and is able to operate on networks in 80 countries. It
3225-640: The crowd, suddenly turning back, she is there in the dimmest candlelight." ( 众里寻他千 百度 , 蓦然回首, 那人却在灯火阑珊处。 ) Baidu's primary advertising product is called Baidu Tuiguang and is similar to Google Ads and AdSense . It is a pay per click advertising platform that allows advertisers to have their ads shown in Baidu search results pages and on other websites that are part of Baidu Union. However, Baidu's search results are also based on payments by advertisers. This has prompted criticism and skepticism among Chinese users, with People's Daily commenting in 2018 on issues regarding reliability of Baidu results. Often as many as
3300-548: The demand of the Chinese government. A U.S. judge has ruled that the Chinese search engine Baidu has the right to block works from its query results under freedom of speech rights, dismissing a lawsuit that sought to punish the company. Generative AI Generative artificial intelligence ( generative AI , GenAI , or GAI ) is a subset of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text, images, videos, or other forms of data. These models learn
3375-587: The difference between computers and humans, and between quantitative calculations and qualitative, value-based judgements. In April 2023, it was reported that image generation AI has resulted in 70% of the jobs for video game illustrators in China being lost. In July 2023, developments in generative AI contributed to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes . Fran Drescher , president of the Screen Actors Guild , declared that "artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to creative professions" during
3450-405: The early 1800s. Markov chains have long been used to model natural languages since their development by Russian mathematician Andrey Markov in the early 20th century. Markov published his first paper on the topic in 1906, and analyzed the pattern of vowels and consonants in the novel Eugeny Onegin using Markov chains. Once a Markov chain is learned on a text corpus , it can then be used as
3525-647: The fact-checking company Logically found that the popular generative AI models Midjourney , DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion would produce plausible disinformation images when prompted to do so, such as images of electoral fraud in the United States and Muslim women supporting India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party . In April 2024, a paper proposed to use blockchain ( distributed ledger technology) to promote "transparency, verifiability, and decentralization in AI development and usage". Instances of users abusing software to generate controversial statements in
3600-664: The field have raised philosophical and ethical arguments about the nature of the human mind and the consequences of creating artificial beings with human-like intelligence; these issues have previously been explored by myth , fiction and philosophy since antiquity. The concept of automated art dates back at least to the automata of ancient Greek civilization , where inventors such as Daedalus and Hero of Alexandria were described as having designed machines capable of writing text, generating sounds, and playing music. The tradition of creative automations has flourished throughout history, exemplified by Maillardet's automaton created in
3675-405: The first generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), known as GPT-1 , in 2018. This was followed in 2019 by GPT-2 which demonstrated the ability to generalize unsupervised to many different tasks as a Foundation model . The new generative models introduced during this period allowed for large neural networks to be trained using unsupervised learning or semi-supervised learning , rather than
3750-529: The first Chinese firm to join the United States–based computer ethics consortium Partnership on AI . During the 2020s, Baidu has increasingly focused on generative AI related products. The Chinese government views Baidu as one of its national champion corporations. In 1994, Robin Li ( Pinyin : Li Yanhong, Chinese : 李彦宏 ) joined IDD Information Services, a New Jersey division of Dow Jones and Company , where he helped develop software for
3825-553: The first driverless taxis. The company aim to provide driverless ride-hailing services to the public and have 10 autonomous cars set to begin offering rides to passengers within a 23-square-mile area in suburban begin beginning 28 April 2022. In July 2022, Baidu unveiled the Apollo RT6, a driverless vehicle that is planned to join Baidu's driverless fleet in 2023. According to the China Digital Times , Baidu has
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#17328021318013900-459: The first practical deep neural networks capable of learning generative models, as opposed to discriminative ones, for complex data such as images. These deep generative models were the first to output not only class labels for images but also entire images. In 2017, the Transformer network enabled advancements in generative models compared to older Long-Short Term Memory models, leading to
3975-765: The first two pages of search results tend to be paid advertisers. Baidu sells its advertising products via a network of resellers. Baidu's web administrative tools are all in Chinese, making it difficult for non-Chinese speakers to use. In 2012, a third-party company developed a tool with an interface in English for advertising on Baidu. Advertisers on Baidu must have a registered business address either in China or in specified East Asian countries. Baidu competes with Sogou , Google Search , 360 Search (www.so.com), Yahoo! China , Microsoft 's Bing and MSN Messenger , Sina , NetEase 's Youdao and PaiPai, Alibaba 's Taobao , TOM Online , DuckDuckGo , and EachNet . Baidu
4050-606: The form of a pre-production vehicle. The ROBO-01 rides on the Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) platform, a modular electric vehicle platform developed by Geely Holding . In August 2023, Baidu unveiled its ChatGPT-equivalent language model Ernie Bot publicly. In October 2023, Baidu released a newer version Ernie 4.0 chatbot. As of April 2024, Apollo Go, Baidu's autonomous ride-hailing service, had completed six million rides using driverless robotaxis across 11 cities. The service operates
4125-402: The forum service. Four people were fired in connection with these arrests. On 16 July 2013, Baidu announced its intention to purchase 91 Wireless from NetDragon . 91 Wireless is best known for its app store, but it has been reported that the app store faces privacy and other legal issues. On 14 August 2013, Baidu announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Baidu (Hong Kong) Limited has signed
4200-411: The global economy by 2030, but that its malicious use "could cause horrific levels of death and destruction, widespread trauma, and deep psychological damage on an unimaginable scale". From the early days of the development of AI, there have been arguments put forward by ELIZA creator Joseph Weizenbaum and others about whether tasks that can be done by computers actually should be done by them, given
4275-408: The late 2000s, the emergence of deep learning drove progress and research in image classification , speech recognition , natural language processing and other tasks. Neural networks in this era were typically trained as discriminative models, due to the difficulty of generative modeling. In 2014, advancements such as the variational autoencoder and generative adversarial network produced
4350-433: The launch of its Apollo project (Apolong) , a self-driving vehicle platform, in a bid to help drive the development of autonomous cars including vehicle platform, hardware platform, open-source software platform and cloud data services. Baidu plans to launch this project in July 2017, before gradually introducing fully autonomous driving capabilities on highways and open city roads by 2020. In September 2017, Baidu launched
4425-420: The motions of a robotic system to generate new trajectories for motion planning or navigation . For example, UniPi from Google Research uses prompts like "pick up blue bowl" or "wipe plate with yellow sponge" to control movements of a robot arm. Multimodal "vision-language-action" models such as Google's RT-2 can perform rudimentary reasoning in response to user prompts and visual input, such as picking up
4500-679: The office has also begun taking public input to determine if these rules need to be refined for generative AI. The development of generative AI has raised concerns from governments, businesses, and individuals, resulting in protests, legal actions, calls to pause AI experiments , and actions by multiple governments. In a July 2023 briefing of the United Nations Security Council , Secretary-General António Guterres stated "Generative AI has enormous potential for good and evil at scale", that AI may "turbocharge global development" and contribute between $ 10 and $ 15 trillion to
4575-490: The online edition of The Wall Street Journal . He also worked on developing better algorithms for search engines and remained at IDD Information Services from May 1994 to June 1997. In 1996, while at IDD, Li developed the RankDex site-scoring algorithm for search engines results page ranking and received a US patent for the technology. Launched in 1996, RankDex was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure
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#17328021318014650-723: The proposed Artificial Intelligence Act includes requirements to disclose copyrighted material used to train generative AI systems, and to label any AI-generated output as such. In China, the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services introduced by the Cyberspace Administration of China regulates any public-facing generative AI. It includes requirements to watermark generated images or videos, regulations on training data and label quality, restrictions on personal data collection, and
4725-432: The public release of ChatGPT popularized the use of generative AI for general-purpose text-based tasks. In March 2023, GPT-4 was released. A team from Microsoft Research argued that "it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system". Other scholars have disputed that GPT-4 reaches this threshold, calling generative AI "still far from reaching
4800-435: The quality of websites it was indexing. Li referred to his search mechanism as "link analysis," which involved ranking the popularity of a web site based on how many other sites had linked to it. It predated the similar PageRank algorithm used by Google two years later in 1998; Google founder Larry Page referenced Li's work as a citation in some of his U.S. patents for PageRank. Li later used his RankDex technology for
4875-543: The same month, Baidu announced that its first annual Baidu World technology conference ( Bring AI to Life ) would be held and live-streamed on 16 November 2017, at China World Summit Wing and Kerry Hotel, bringing together Baidu executives, employees, partners, developers, and media to discuss the company's mission and strategy, technology breakthroughs, new product developments, and its open artificial-intelligence (AI) ecosystem. China's government designated Baidu as one of its "AI champions " in 2018. In 2018, Baidu divested
4950-415: The second quarter to 70%, according to Beijing-based research firm Analysys International. It is also evident that Baidu is attempting to enter the Internet social network market. As of 2011 , it is discussing the possibility of working with Facebook, which would lead to a Chinese version of the international social network, managed by Baidu. This plan, if executed, would face off Baidu with competition from
5025-399: The technology, surpassing the global average of 54% and the U.S. at 65%. A UN report revealed China filed over 38,000 GenAI patents from 2014 to 2023, far exceeding the U.S. A generative AI system is constructed by applying unsupervised machine learning (invoking for instance neural network architectures such as GANs , VAE , Transformer , ...) or self-supervised machine learning to
5100-674: The three popular Chinese social networks Qzone , Renren and Kaixin001 as well as induce rivalry with instant-messaging giant, Tencent QQ . On 22 February 2012, Hudong submitted a complaint to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce asking for a review of the behavior of Baidu, accusing it of being monopolistic. By August 2014, Baidu's search market share in China dropped to 56.3%, where Qihoo 360, its closest competitor who has rebranded its search engine as so.com, has increased its market share to 29.0%, according to report from CNZZ.com. In February 2015, Baidu
5175-581: The underlying data. For example, a language model might assume that doctors and judges are male, and that secretaries or nurses are female, if those biases are common in the training data. Similarly, an image model prompted with the text "a photo of a CEO" might disproportionately generate images of white male CEOs, if trained on a racially biased data set. A number of methods for mitigating bias have been attempted, such as altering input prompts and reweighting training data. Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake" ) are AI-generated media that take
5250-795: The underlying patterns and structures of their training data and use them to produce new data based on the input, which often comes in the form of natural language prompts . Improvements in transformer -based deep neural networks , particularly large language models (LLMs), enabled an AI boom of generative AI systems in the early 2020s. These include chatbots such as ChatGPT , Copilot , Gemini , and LLaMA ; text-to-image artificial intelligence image generation systems such as Stable Diffusion , Midjourney , and DALL-E ; and text-to-video AI generators such as Sora . Companies such as OpenAI , Anthropic , Microsoft , Google , and Baidu as well as numerous smaller firms have developed generative AI models. Generative AI has uses across
5325-630: The use of its images to train Stable diffusion . Both the Authors Guild and The New York Times have sued Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of their works to train ChatGPT . A separate question is whether AI-generated works can qualify for copyright protection. The United States Copyright Office has ruled that works created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted, because they lack human authorship. However,
5400-490: The white-collar workers manage their business relationships. On 16 May 2014, Baidu appointed Dr. Andrew Ng as chief scientist. Dr. Ng will lead Baidu Research in Silicon Valley and Beijing. On 18 July 2014, the company launched a Brazilian version of the search engine, Baidu Busca . On 9 October 2014, Baidu announced acquisition of Brazilian local e-commerce site Peixe Urbano. In April 2017, Baidu announced
5475-588: Was alleged to have used anticompetitive tactics in Brazil against the Brazilian online security firm PSafe and Qihoo 360 (the largest investor of PSafe). In an ongoing competition in AI natural language processing called General Language Understanding Evaluation , otherwise known as GLUE, Baidu took a lead over Microsoft and Google in December 2019. Baidu has started to invest in deep learning research and
5550-613: Was incorporated in January 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu . Baidu has origins in RankDex, an earlier search engine developed by Robin Li in 1996, before he founded Baidu in 2000. The company is headquartered in Beijing 's Haidian District . In December 2007, Baidu became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 index. As of May 2018, Baidu's market cap rose to US$ 99 billion. In October 2018, Baidu became
5625-623: Was introduced to the Chinese market. In December 2023, the company revealed the production version of the Jidu Robo-02 prototype, named Ji Yue 07, a large luxury sedan set for market release in April 2024. Ji Yue vehicles are manufactured and assembled at Hangzhou Bay in Ningbo , where Geely's headquarter and several Geely plants are located. Baidu Baidu, Inc. ( / ˈ b aɪ d uː / BY -doo ; Chinese : 百度 ; pinyin : Bǎidù ; lit. 'hundred times')
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