My Chat with Ernie, a Chinese Chat Bot - Cleve Moler on Mathematics and Computing
 

I recently had an opportunity to chat with Ernie, the Large Language Model currently under development at the Chinese internet search giant, [URL="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/07/baidu-shares-leaps-as-it-reveals-plan-for-chatgpt-style-ernie-bot.html"]Baidu[/URL]. As I expected, Ernie's responses are in Chinese. I don't speak Chinese, so I have asked Google Translate for the response in English.

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One of my questions that Microsoft's ChatGPT answered incorrectly was

Who coined the term "embarrassingly parallel?"Ernie's response to the same question was

[IMG]http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/files/response3.jpg[/IMG]

Goggle translate:

Who coined the embarrassing word parallel?Well that's a [B]very[/B] unfortunate misunderstanding. And, it's just repeating the question. That's an old trick; the mother of all chat bots, [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA"]Eliza[/URL] , used it over sixty years ago.

[B]Love MATLAB?[/B]

One of the questions I often ask when I meet someone for the first time is

Do you use MATLAB?Earnie's reply was

[IMG]http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/files/response1.jpg[/IMG]

Google translation is

I think I love you.Well, that's nice, but doesn't really answer my question.

[B]Cleve's Corner[/B]

Can a chat bot assist with writing this blog? I don't expect help with the MATLAB code, or with the graphics, or with any mathematics. How about the prose, if it isn't too technical.

Here is the opening sentence of the [URL="https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2023/02/04/matrices-in-action-grafix-2-0/"]post I made a few weeks ago[/URL].

The 4-by-4 matrices in the panels on the following screenshots are at the heart of computer graphics.I asked Ernie how that would look in Chinese. Ernie responded with

[IMG]http://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/files/response2.jpg[/IMG]

When Google translates that back to English, we get

The 4×4 matrix in the screenshot panel below is at the heart of computer graphics.Ernie decided to make the sentence singular, which happens to shorten it. But I am afraid that isn't much help for this blog.

[B]Conclusion[/B]

I have already described [URL="https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2023/02/21/my-chat-with-chatgpt/"]my chat with ChatGPT[/URL]. This Chinese competitor is certainly not an improvement. For now, I will continue to produce this blog the old fashioned way, without any "help" from AI.

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