According to The New York Times, OpenAI’s high-profile AI chatbot ChatGPT poses such a severe danger to Google’s fundamental operations that the company’s co-founders have resumed their relationship with the search engine giant.
When ChatGPT was introduced by the startup OpenAI in November, more than a million users had already started asking it a wide variety of inquiries within a short period of time. The artificial intelligence system can answer queries, write essays, develop computer programmes, and provide a wide range of information since it has been educated on enormous amounts of content from the internet.
Although ChatGPT might seem authoritative, you can’t always trust its judgement and you can’t determine where it gets its information from. Though it’s spectacular enough to become popular online and helpful enough that Google apparently responded to ChatGPT with a “code red” reaction.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, are now looking into the matter at the request of Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, the business that owns Google, according to the Times. In 2019, they had mainly left their positions in daily operations.
Google has a competing AI system called PaLM, but it hasn’t made it accessible to the general public. The “transformer” technique, which is at the core of complex language models like PaLM and OpenAI’s ChatGPT base, GPT-3, was created by this AI pioneer. This week, the business outlined many uses of AI by Google, including anything from putting advertising to proposing email responses.
Regarding the co-founders’ actions or its position on ChatGPT, Google made no comments. The business, according to spokeswoman Lily Lin, is focused on making sure AI is utilised responsibly.
As our AI Principles explain, we need to take into account the larger social consequences these discoveries can have. “We think that AI is a fundamental and revolutionary technology that is immensely valuable for individuals, organisations, and communities,” Lin added. We keep testing our AI technology internally to make sure it’s beneficial and secure, and we anticipate shortly sharing more experiences with others.
Gene Munster, an analyst at Loup Ventures, believes that ChatGPT, GPT-3, and big language models pose a challenge to Google’s market share.
According to Munster in a report on Friday, “one potential future is that these LLMs may be incorporated into the backbone of many of the software services we use.” Long-term damage to Google might result from this conclusion.
But in the end, he thought, Google should be able to survive the danger. Google has “more than enough money to make efforts that will create a ChatGPT competition” with four services that collectively have more than a billion users apiece and $60 billion in operational income from search.
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