In the wake of ChatGPT, Google is worried it's behind the times

Date:
Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:33:13 +0000

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Google employees and executives are at odds over whether AI will save or kill the company.

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In a recent all-hands meeting, Google employees wondered aloud whether
OpenAIs latest chatbot ChatGPT is beating the company to the punch for dominance in the artificial intelligence (AI) field.

As reported by CNBC (which did not disclose a source), one employee question referred to Googles refusal as yet to implement AI into its search function
as a missed opportunity, especially given that it has already built LaMDA, an AI chatbot that was labelled sentient by Google engineer Blake Lemoine in
June 2022 before he was fired in July.

ChatGPT is a live chat bot designed to provide both factual information knowledge and creative responses to user queries and prompts, which, as
Google employees are pointing out, is already the wheelhouse of what Google already does. Chatbot wars

However, the CEO of Googles parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, and the head of Googles AI division Jeff Dean responded by saying that it wasnt a matter of Google lacking the capabilities to implement AI into searches, but of Google needing to protect its reputation as an accurate source of information, which AI cannot always be relied upon to be .

This really strikes a need that people seem to have but its also important to realize these models have certain types of issues, Dean said. If [an AI is] not really sure about something, theyll just tell you, you know, [that] elephants are the animals that lay the largest eggs or whatever.

Google may have a point, but independent analysts have theirs. CNBC quoted Morgan Stanleys lead Alphabet analyst Brian Nowak as saying that the persistent fear would be that language models would take market share from Google, and disrupt [its] position as the entry point for people on the Internet.

And while its still going to be some time before Google might see that disruption - and its a big might - Nowak did note that LaMDA is still in active development, and that Google is continuing to research and release new AI-driven products. Read more

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In December 2022, for instance, Googles Tensorflow team released a machine learning extension for Google Sheets that was aimed at total newcomers to AI.

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