Beac presented its own GigaShat neural network, which at the first stage will be available in testing mode by invitation. She is able to answer users’ questions, maintain a dialogue, write program code, create texts and pictures based on descriptions within a single context.

— Yaroslav Gavrilov  (@appletesterrus) April 24, 2023

network models and the supervised fine-tuning method, reinforcement learning with human feedback. This allows the neural network to solve a variety of tasks, and the inclusion of the Kandinsky 2.1 model in the service makes it possible to create images.

— Yaroslav Gavrilov  (@appletesterrus) April 24, 2023

Well, let’s hope this works.

I’m thinking it probably doesn’t.

But hey – let’s hope.

Reuters:

Russian lender Sberbank said on Monday it had released technology called GigaChat as a rival to ChatGPT, initially in an invite-only testing mode, joining the artificial intelligence chatbot race.

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Sberbank said what sets GigaChat apart was its ability to communicate more intelligently in Russian than other foreign neural networks.

I’ll give it a try at some point soon and give a report.

Most likely, it’s going to be the Chinese that give us something that isn’t crap.