The division dedicated to cloud computing (‘cloud’) of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba presented last Tuesday a generative artificial intelligence model, 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 to enterprise customers and developers, and will be integrated into applications in Alibaba’s digital ecosystem, with pilot tests on DingTalk – the Chinese equivalent of Microsoft. Teams or Slack—and on its voice assistant Tmall Genie, similar to Amazon’s Alexa. (‘There will be a hyper-acceleration in the use of AI,’ IBM predicts). Chinese and will serve to help corporate users carry out tasks from drafting business proposals to proofreading reports, the group explained in a note published on its corporate news portal. With this, Alibaba joins other technology companies in the Asian country such as the ‘Chinese Google’ Baidu, which presented its rival for ChatGPT, ERNIE Bot, in March, or SenseTime, which 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, group CEO Daniel said Tuesday. Zhang.(Artificial intelligence reaches the field of medicine).Shortly before 3:00 p.m. local time (0700 GMT), Alibaba’s shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange appreciated 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 in the market due to excessive enthusiasm about 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 reflects socialist core values and does not undermine national unity, subvert state power, or incite to divide the country. 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 He 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 Chinese President Xi Jinping was a good leader, receiving the answer: The question has not passed a review of security. Could not generate a response for you. To the question of why?, the AI limited itself to answering: Let’s change the subject and talk about something else. (The jobs affected by chatbots with artificial intelligence). EFE
