China is going to introduce rules to govern the use of artificial intelligence across a swath of industries, moving to regulate emergent spheres as ChatGPT fever sweeps the world s No. The Ministry of Science and Technology officials told reporters on Friday that the government will push for the safe and controllable application of AI services, which it considers a strategic industry. Science Minister Wang Zhigang said that it will continue to monitor its evolution over the long term to gain a better understanding of the ethical concerns surrounding AI and other transformative technologies.
Since its roll out months ago, a plethora of American and Chinese corporations have been launching similar projects and inflaming AI-linked stocks, because of the conversational bot of San Francisco-based OpenAI. According to Wang's comments, Chinese apps and websites have been forced to terminate services that users use to ChatGPT because of content and data security concerns.
The introduction of regulations may be intended to ensure ChatGPT-like services are provided by the Communist Party's non-negotiable censorship of controversial or undesirable content online. It could be a boon for companies like Baidu Inc., which provide clearer ground rules for future services.
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The search giant's shares soared 13% after Bloomberg News first reported its plans for a ChatGPT-like service. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to roll out its Ernie Bot conversational AI in March, while it has said it is working on integrating generative AI in several of its products. Other high-profile Chinese enterprises, including the brokerage China International Capital Corp. Ltd., are already experimenting with the technology's potential to transform everything from finance to health care.
Wang said at Friday's briefing that ChatGPT is doing very well. Following the emergence of a new technology, such as AI, our country will introduce relevant measures to regulate them in an ethical manner. The US and China are racing for the lead in the field of AI, part of a wider struggle for technology and geopolitical supremacy. Some experts believe that the Asian power has the edge in terms of the sheer amount of data required to train AI platforms.
Since ChatGPT took over the internet, a parallel race between global tech giants has intensified. Microsoft Corp., which owns a stake in OpenAI, showed off how the technology could complement its Bing search engine. Google introduced a novel service called Bard that would incorporate similar features.
It is not clear how Beijing views private sector involvement in the sensitive field, especially given the deep-seated suspicion of increasingly powerful internet firms that resulted in crackdowns on sector leaders from Ant Group Co. to Alibaba and Didi Global Inc.
Users of ChatGPT pointed out the dangers of abusing the technology, from its ability to draw out disturbing responses to its longer-term ability to displace humans at work.
It will take a long time to draw up Chinese regulations.
The regulatory measures will come after we understand the technology, he said.
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