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losers are always in the wrong [成王败寇]
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Feature Translation: XiaoIce Peerless (part 2)
Context: Last week, our deep history on Xiaoice, China's most popular chatbot, ended with a cliffhanger: how will it survive in a ChatGPT world of large language models? Let's find out by translating the second half of Caixian Chen and Zibo Dong's excellent piece on Xiaoice, published in AItechtalk[AI科技评论], a portal under Leiphone.
Key Takeaways: In July 2020, shortly after OpenAI releases GPT-3, Microsoft spins off Xiaoice as an independent company. Li Di, who incubated Xiaoice while he was at Microsoft's Bing division, will be the CEO. It's [...]
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First published:
December 18th, 2023
Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-248-xiaoice-where-do-we-go
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