Baidu denies any ties to reported Chinese military training on its GenAI chatbot

Published on January 17, 2024



Scientists say they're training a military system based on Baidu's Ernie Bot. The Chinese tech giant refutes having any links to such research.

Baidu has refuted suggestions it has ties to scientists who say they are training a Chinese military system based on the tech giant's generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot, Ernie Bot. 

Media reports emerged on Friday that a university linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China was training the military's AI system with Baidu's large language model (LLM). Researchers from the Information Engineering University fed the LLM with data on weapons and forces deployed in past conflicts to predict combat strategy, the South China Morning Post first reported.

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