ChatGPT, a high-profile AI chatbot From OpenAI is such a serious threat to Google’s core business that the company’s co-founders are re-engaging with the search giant. The New York Times reported on this Friday
The startup OpenAI debuted ChatGPT in November, and within days, more than a million people began to bombard it with tons of questions and requests. An AI system is trained on large amounts of text on the Internet and can answer questions, write essays, write computer programs, and generate all kinds of information.
ChatGPT may sound reputable, but it’s not always right, and you can’t tell where it gets its answers from. Being a viral hit on the Internet is impressive enough and rewarding enough that Google has reportedly announced a “code red”. Reply to ChatGPT.
Now, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are investigating the matter at the behest of Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google’s parent company Alphabet, the Times reports. They were largely removed from their day-to-day operational roles in 2019.
There is Google rival AI technology PaLM, but he did not make the AI system publicly available. And it’s PaLM and OpenAI’s ChatGPT foundation, the AI pioneer that invented the “transformer” technology at the heart of big language models like GPT-3. In a blog post this week, the company summarized a few things Areas where Google uses artificial intelligencefor everything from prompting email responses to placing ads.
Google has not commented on the co-founders’ actions or their position on ChatGPT. But spokeswoman Lily Lin said ensuring the safe use of artificial intelligence is important to the company.
“We believe that artificial intelligence is a foundational and transformative technology that is incredibly beneficial to individuals, businesses and communities. Principles of AI we must consider the outline wider societal implications these could be innovations,” Lin said. “We continue to test our AI technology internally to make sure it’s useful and safe, and we look forward to sharing more experiences overseas soon.”
Loup Ventures analyst Gene Munster sees ChatGPT, GPT-3 and large language models as a competitive threat to Google.
“One possible future is for these LLMs to be built on the back end of many of the technology services we use,” Munster said in Friday’s report. “This is an outcome that could hurt Google in the long run.”
Ultimately, he predicted, Google should be able to withstand the threat. With four services, each with more than a billion users, and $60 billion in annual operating revenue from search, Google “has enough money to fund the investment that a ChatGPT competitor would make.”
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