Google is not about let Microsoft or anyone else makes a swipe to claim the search crown without scrambling. Today, the company announced that it will be rolling out a chatbot called Bard “in the next few weeks”. The launch seems to be a reaction to ChatGPT, the sensational popular app artificial intelligence chatbot developed by startup OpenAI with funding from Microsoft.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, wrote in a blog post that the Bard is ready for “credible testers” and is designed to bring “the breadth of the world’s knowledge” behind a conversational interface. It uses a smaller version of the powerful AI model called LaMDA, Google first announced in May 2021 and is based on the same technology as ChatGPT. Google says this will allow it to make its chatbot available to more users and collect feedback to help it address challenges around the quality and accuracy of chatbot responses.
Google and OpenAI are both building their bots on text generation software, eloquent though, but manufacturing bias and can copy unflattering expressions picked up on the internet. The need to minimize such errors, and the fact that this type of software cannot easily be updated with new information, poses a challenge to hopes of building Powerful and lucrative new product on the cutting edge of technology, including the suggestion that chatbots can reinventing web search.
Notably, Pichai has not announced plans to integrate Bard into Google’s profitable search box. Instead, he introduces a novel and conservative way of using underlying AI technology to augment conventional search. For questions that don’t have a unified answer, Google will aggregate answers that reflect differing opinions.
For example, the query “Is it easier to learn piano or guitar?” will be met with “Some say it’s easier to learn piano, because the movements of the fingers and hands are more natural… Others say it’s easier to learn chords on the guitar.” Pichai also said that Google plans to make the underlying technology available to developers via an API, as OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT, but did not give a timeline.
The extreme excitement inspired by ChatGPT has led to speculation that Google faces a serious challenge to its dominance. web search for the first time in many years. Microsoft, recently invested about 10 billion USD in OpenAIwill hold a media event tomorrow regarding their work with the creator of ChatGPT which is said to be involved in new features for the company’s second-ranked search engine, Bing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted a photo with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shortly after Google’s announcement.
Quietly launched by OpenAI last November, ChatGPT has grown into an internet craze. The ability to answer complex questions with clear coherence and clarity makes many users dream of a revolution in education, business, and daily life. But some AI experts advise caution, noting that the tool doesn’t understand the information it provides and has a inherent tendency to fabricate things.
This situation could be particularly frustrating for some of Google’s AI experts, because the company’s researchers have developed some of the technology behind ChatGPT—a fact Pichai alluded to in the post. on the Google blog. “We reoriented the company to AI six years ago,” Pichai wrote. “Since then, we have continued to invest in AI across the board.” He’s name-checked both Google’s AI research division and works at DeepMind, the UK-based AI startup that Google acquired in 2014.
ChatGPT is built on top of GPT, an AI model called a transformer first invented at Google that takes a text string and predicts what will happen next. OpenAI has become famous for publicly demonstrating how feeding massive amounts of data into transformer models and powering up the computers running them can create adept systems. language creation or image. ChatGPT improves on GPT by asking humans to provide feedback to different answers to another AI model to refine the output.
Google has, by its own admission, was chosen to proceed with caution when adding the technology behind LaMDA to products. Besides the illusion of incorrect information, AI models trained on text pulled from the Web are tend to exhibit racial and gender biases and repeat hateful language.
Those limitations were highlighted by Google researchers in a draft research paper 2020 Arguing cautiously with text-generating technology annoyed some executives and led to the company fired two AI researchers with outstanding ethicsTimnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell.
Other Google researchers who worked on the technology behind LaMDA were frustrated by Google’s reluctance and left the company to build startups that harness the same technology. The advent of ChatGPT seems to have inspired the company to speed up the process of incorporating the technology into its products.
