In response to the popularity of ChatGPT, a Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence chatbot that has become a global phenomenon after it was made available free of charge, Google has said that it will make its chatbot technology available to the general public in “the coming weeks and months.”
The usage of AI had reached a “inflection point,” according to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, which owns Google, and the business was “very well positioned” in the space.
Pichai mentioned two “big language models” created by the business, LaMDA and PaLM, with the former scheduled for immediate release. This past week, CNBC reported that Google had started testing Apprentice Bard, a LaMDA-based AI chatbot that is comparable to ChatGPT.
LaMDA gained notoriety last year after Google first suspended, then fired an employee for publicly asserting that LaMDA was “sentient.” LaMDA stands for language model for dialogue applications. Google called Blake Lemoine’s claims about LaMDA “wholly unfounded.”
Pichai stated:
“In the coming weeks and months, we’ll make these language models available, starting with LaMDA so that people can engage directly with them,” during a conference call with Alphabet investors on Thursday. Large language models like LaMDA and the neural networks powering ChatGPT are fed vast amounts of text to learn how to create plausible sentences. Neural networks are computer simulations of the underlying structures of the brain. ChatGPT has grown in popularity after being used to create a variety of content, including school essays and job applications.
Pichai explained that the launch will involve integrating chatbot technology with Google. He predicted that humans will soon be able to communicate directly with the strongest language models as search partners in novel and exploratory ways. As part of a “AI Test Kitchen” last year, Google made a collection of LaMDA demos accessible to small groups.
He also praised DeepMind, an AI division of Alphabet based in the UK, stating that its database of “all 200 million proteins known to science has been used by one million scientists worldwide.”
The San Francisco-based business OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to analysts, has hit 100 million users since its launch on November 30. Analysts at the investment bank UBS described the increase as extraordinary, writing:
“In 20 years of tracking the internet area, we cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer online app.”
One of OpenAI’s financial sponsors, Microsoft, is incorporating ChatGPT into its products and has already released a premium edition of its Teams communications software that includes AI-powered extras like automatically created meeting notes. Additionally, it is anticipated that Microsoft would use OpenAI’s AI models in its Bing search engine.
An example of generative AI is ChatGPT, a system that can generate content from a brief text prompt after being trained on massive volumes of text and visual data. Dall-E is an AI-powered image generator also developed by OpenAI.
With the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI has brought “fireworks” to major tech companies, according to Michael Wooldridge, his professor of computer science at the University of Oxford.
They have achieved this with a small fraction of the workforce at the big tech companies, which must have surprised Silicon Valley boardrooms, he said. “I expect other big tech companies to see a big shift towards big language models and generative AI, and see the insane move to bring products to market and build user bases.”
