Baidu

A Chinese internet company, operator of China's dominant search engine and one of the first large firms outside the United States to invest heavily in deep learningdeep learning, n.: Machine learning done with neural networks built from many stacked layers: raw data such as pixels, sound or text goes in at one end, and each layer turns what it receives into something more abstract.. It founded an Institute of Deep Learning in 2013 and in 2014 hired Andrew NgAndrew Ng, prop. n.: A British-born American computer scientist whose online courses have taught machine learning to millions; he also co-founded Google's deep learning team, Google Brain, and the online-course company Coursera. to lead Baidu Research in Beijing and Silicon Valley, which produced the Deep Speech recognizers and a 2017 study showing that error falls predictably as training data and model size grow, an early empirical statement of scaling lawsscaling laws, n.: Measured patterns showing that an AI model's error shrinks smoothly and predictably as the model is made bigger and given more data and computing power, so labs can forecast a giant model's performance from small, cheap experiments.. Baidu open-sourced the PaddlePaddle deep-learning framework in 2016 and has developed the ERNIE family of language modelslarge language model, n.: A computer program trained on enormous amounts of text to predict the words that come next. At vast scale, that simple skill lets it chat, answer questions, translate, summarize and write code. since 2019; its Ernie Bot, unveiled in March 2023, was the first major Chinese response to ChatGPTChatGPT, prop. n.: OpenAI's AI chatbot, released free to the public in November 2022, which answers questions, writes and converses in everyday language. Its sudden popularity began the current AI boom.. It also designs Kunlun AI chips and operates the Apollo Go robotaxirobotaxi, n.: A taxi with no human driver: you summon it with a phone app, and a self-driving car picks you up and drives you to your destination. service.