In China, an Answer to ChatGPT Has an Underwhelming Debut.

The article focuses on the unveiling of Chinese internet company Baidu's new language model Ernie which was intended to rival the success of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT). Topics include the disappointment of Ernie's debut, the challenges China faces in catching up to the U.S. in Artificial Intelligence, and the impact of censorship rules on the quality of China's data and development of chatbots.