Baidu’s Ernie writes poems but says it has insufficient information on Xi, tests show

Baidu’s Ernie bot can within seconds generate pictures of flowers and write Tang dynasty-style poems but will decline questions about Chinese President Xi Jinping by saying it has not yet learnt how to answer them, Reuters tests showed.

The Chinese search engine giant last week unveiled China’s closest rival to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT and from Thursday allowed users to apply for access to it.