Baidu Conquers The Next-Gen AI Race By Beating Tech Giants In A Language Test

Although conversing with artificial intelligence (AI) has been a common plot point for several science fiction movies, the real-life applications are still miles away. However, according to recent media reports, Chinese technology giant -- Baidu has started to make bold strides towards AI by beating Google and Microsoft in a competition designed to test the ability of machine in understanding human language. Baidu, which is often termed as China's Google, surpassed traditional players when it comes to AI and language learning. It has achieved the highest ever score in the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE), which has been widely considered to be the benchmark for AI language comprehension skills. For most humans, the managed score is usually an 87 out of 100, however, Baidu's model, called ERNIE (Enhanced Representation through knowledge Integration has scored a 90, which is a first for any AI models.