China's AI Companies Face Scrutiny Over Military Ties
- Baidu stock fell over 6% on Friday amid concerns over military using AI
- China's military lab connected to Baidu's Ernie chatbot & iFlyTek's Spark model
- Military teaching AI to face unpredictable enemies using large language models
- Military AI takes sensor data from frontline, sends to commercial models, receives prompts
- Process involves no humans; allows military AI to better understand data & perform tasks