Back in December, Google, despite significant investments in artificial intelligence technology, believed that its too rapid implementation could damage the company’s reputation. But now it seems the tech giant is alarmed by the popularity of ChatGPT and plans to show off a version of its search engine with chatbot features and unveil more than 20 AI-based projects during 2023.
Earlier, Google also announced that it would lay off more than 12,000 employees and focus on artificial intelligence.
No exact launch date has been announced for the chatbot-powered Google Search demo, but other projects will debut at the annual I/O event in May. The media also reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are both Alphabet shareholders, actively “encouraged” executives to discuss the chatbot last month.
Google is said to prioritize “getting facts right, security and freedom from misinformation”, hoping to solve one of the main problems of artificial intelligence, which confidently and clearly responds to queries by providing incorrect data. At the same time, Google is working to speed up the process of testing the technology for morality.
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Among the other 20 AI products presented by Google this year:
- image generation studio;
- an application for testing product prototypes and a set of tools for other companies that can be used to create AI prototypes;
- a code generation tool called PaLM-Coder 2, similar to Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot software;
- other tools that help you build apps for smartphones, including an app called Colab + Android Studio.
In recent years, Google has been moving quite carefully through the release of new AI products. The company found itself at the center of discussions after the dismissal of two industry researchers – Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell. They criticized language models for being biased and providing misinformation.
Google’s advanced AI technologies are now being tested with caution. For example, AI Test Kitchen offers access to image and text generation tools similar to OpenAI DALL-E and ChatGPT, but the requests users can make are strictly limited. The company has already shown off some of its own chatbot AI products, including a system similar to ChatGPT back in 2021.
However, with the launch of the OpenAI chatbot (which, by the way, is blocked in Ukraine, in order “not to violate the sanctions that have been applied to the annexed Crimea/LDNR since 2014”) and alarming predictions about the imminent decline of Google, the company seems to have reconsidered its tactics.
Earlier, Microsoft announced that it will invest $10 billion in the developer of the chatbot, the OpenAI company, and also plans to integrate ChatGPT into its own Bing search engine already in the spring.
Source: The Verge
