Chinese Tech giant Alibaba has announced rolling out its own Artificial Intelligence product called Tongyi Qianwen.
Tongyi Qianwen which means “Truth from a thousand questions” was introduced on Tuesday in a filmed demonstration that was shown.
The Chatbot is reported to be capable of working in English as well as Chinese and will be added to Alibaba’s workplace messaging app, DingTalk.
Tasks marked out for the AI Assistant include turning conversations in meetings into written notes, writing emails and drafting business proposals.
It will also be integrated into Tmall Genie which is Alibaba’s version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant smart speaker.
The tech giant’s cloud computing unit says it will integrate the chatbot across Alibaba’s businesses in the near future.
Since Microsoft-backed Open AI released chatGPT in November, interest in generative AI has shot all the way up, with technology companies around the world unveiling their own generative AI chatbots.
Alphabet’s Google and Chinese tech group Baidu have also created and released their own chatbots.
Only weeks ago, Open AI released GPT-4 the latest version of ChatGPT with “more advanced reasoning skills.” However, a group of high profile interests in the technology industry including Twitter’s Elon Musk, Apple Cofounder Steve Vozniak and some researchers at DeepMind have called for the suspension of training powerful AI systems in a signed open letter, warning of potential risks and threats to humanity.
The open letter raised an alarm that the race to develop AI systems is out of control.
From our observation, these tech execs are not alone in their concern as ChatGPT was banned in Italy earlier this week because of an alleged data breach at Open AI and worries over a lack of age restrictions on ChatGPT, making Italy the first Western nation to block ChatGPT.
Also, China’s cyberspace regulator unveiled draft measures for managing generative AI including proposed rules, and gave the public till 19th of May to give feedback on the proposal.
Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud plans to open Tongyi Qianwen to customisation from users so that they can build their own language models.
