Race for AI chatbots is sparked by “Google killer” ChatGPT
The AI chatbot ChatGPT from the company OpenAI has been available to the public for two months, and it didn’t take long for people to realise what a game changer this actually is.
Whether you snuck in a homework question, 500 words on the end of World War Two, or asked it to create you a song in the style of your favourite musician.
Whether you requested ChatGPT to create material for your business website, a speech, or even precise computer code, it has demonstrated its ability to deliver and do it convincingly.
If students can complete their homework and submit their university applications quickly using ChatGPT or its competitors, there has been a tonne of reporting on the potential danger this poses to a broad variety of jobs and to our entire paradigm of education.
Nevertheless, this technology is still very new. It is text-only, limited to internet-based information as of 2021, and not updated. It presents its response as facts despite the reality that the internet is rife with false information, some of it more harmful than others.
The journalist who worked on it claims it took a lot of coaxing and changes before there was anything even remotely close to being of a quality we may publish when we tried to persuade it to produce an article for the BBC website.
We didn’t because it ultimately still wasn’t good enough.
Although it produced material rapidly, according to our writer, the process itself took a lot of time since he had to keep going back to it and directly instructing it to focus less on one subject or explain more about another.
But rather than just stealing my career, ChatGPT’s developers have far more profitable plans in mind. The multi-billion dollar internet search industry is the greater picture. It has been nicknamed the Google killer for this reason.
In 2020, Google’s parent company Alphabet generated $104 billion in revenue from search alone. It would be a great accomplishment to capture even a small portion of the market.
Therefore it is no accident that Microsoft, the owner of the search engine Bing, has announced a multi billion dollar agreement wIth OpenAI, since OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been sensational.
The internet is flooded with allegedly leaked image of a Bing powered by ChatGPT. Imaging using a search engine, typing in your question, and receiving one clear response in return rather than having to go through several pages of links and advertisements.
Google’s new chatbot Bard and Google’s invest in Anthropic for ChatGPT competitor
Recently, Google revealed the debut of Bard, an AI chatbot that will compete with it. Following all the rumours concerning Microsoft and ChatGPT, it is believed to have pushed the announcement ahead.
Bard is built on Google’s LaMDA language learning algorithm, which one programmer who worked with it claimed made him think it was sentient because of how human-like its replies are. He was fired and Google has always denied the claim.
The internet giant also recently disclosed a $300 million investment in Anthropic, a company creating ChatGPT competitor. The AI chatbot Blenderbot was introduced by Meta, in the US last summer 2022.
In China, the internet giant Baidu has announced that an upgraded version of its chatbot Erine(Wenxin Yiyan) will be released in March 2023. We are about to face a chatbot competition worldwide.
Google Chatbot Bard seeks to integrate the richness of world’s information
To compete with ChatGPT, Google is releasing the Bard chatbot, which is AI-powered. Before being made available to the general public in the upcoming weeks, Bard will be used by a handful of testers, the company stated.
Bard is based on Google’s huge language model LaMDA, which one programmer said had replies that were so similar to humans’ that he though it may even be sentient.
The IT behemoth also unveiled new AI search engine tools. AI chatbots are made to search information and respond to queries. The most well-known example is ChatGPT.
They utilise the internet as a vast repository of knowledge, but there are worries that it may also contain offensive content and misinformation. Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated in a blog post that Bard “seeks to integrate the richness of the world’s information with the strength, intelligence and creativity of our massive language models.
Although Mr. Pichai emphasised that that he intended Google’s AI services to be bold and responsible. He did not go into detail about how Bard would be stopped from distributing offensive or dangerous content.
According to him, the platform would initially run on a lightweight variation of Lamda that consumes less power and allows for simultaneous usage by more users.
Feb 7 2023, Microsoft integrated the AI chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine Bing as a result of a multi-billion dollar investment in the company, OpenAI that developed it, Google’s statement comes as a response.
An all new AI powered Bing search engine and Edge browser available now at Bing.com to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience and the ability to generate content.
Based on data from the internet as it existed in 2021, ChatGPT may respond to queries and fulfil requests in text form. It can produce student essays, news stories, music, speeches, and commercial material.
Although it now costs the company a few cents each time someone uses it, it is currently free for users. Open AI has disclosed a paid tier to go along with free access.
Bard’s error of James Webb ST and Chatbot’s ultimate goal is to pose complex queries
After being unveiled, the Google AI tool Bard is already getting called out for presenting inaccurate information in a demonstration meant to show off the tool’s ability.
On 6 Feb 2023 Google shared an example of Bard answering the question “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?
The AI tool responds with three bullet points. The last one incorrectly states that the JWST, which launched in December 2021, took the “very first pictures” of an exoplanet outside our solar system.
The first image of an exoplanet was taken by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in 2004, according to NASA.
After the error gained notice, Google parent company Alphabet lost roughly $100 billion in market value. Its stock declined sharply when trading opened on Wednesday and the next day in a row.
The mistake highlights concerns about issues of trustworthiness as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and others explore new tools and services infused with artificial intelligence.
Despite of it, for now Bard is still an experiment and Google said it is testing the tool to make improvement. “This highlights the importance of a rigorous testing process, something that we’re kicking off on 6 Feb 2023 with our Trusted Tester Program” said the Google spokesperson.
And experts agree that chatbots ultimate goal is to replace pages of online links with a single, conclusive response in internet searches. According to Pichai, consumers are now is utilising Google search to pose increasingly complex queries.
For instance, a question about the piano that was frequently asked in the past could have been how many keys it has now is more likely to be if it is harder to learn than the guitar, a question that cannot be answered with certainty right away.
In these circumstances, he stated AI may be useful, synthesising thoughts for issues when there’s no one right solution. You will soon notice AI-powered Search features that condense complicated material and differing viewpoints into simple forms so you can easily grasp the broad picture and learn more from the web.
Source: wired, cnet
