During the presentation, iFLYTEK CEO Liu Qingfeng conducted a series of tests in Chinese and English. The chatbot was asked to evaluate student essays and write a hypothetical story about Confucius’ participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Chinese ChatGPT rivals on the rise
SparkDesk successfully completed the tasks assigned to it and answered various questions from the event attendees. Qingfeng stated that the company intends to catch ChatGPT in understanding English and surpass OpenAI in understanding Chinese.
By the way, it should be noted that iFLYTEK is not the only Chinese company that has decided to develop its own chatbot. It was previously reported that Chinese internet giant Baidu has also created an artificial intelligence model to rival ChatGPT. You can read the details in our news here.