ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, has made a lot of noise recently. Some use it for good intentions, while others try to cheat using this tool. What’s more interesting, some tech giants, such as Google and Amazon, have already begun to fear it. Many even hurried to say that’s the end of Google’s hegemony. But what we heard these days is that Google is developing a competitor to ChatGPT that could change traditional search on the net.
According to Engadget, the company previously announced a “red code” to present at least 20 products based on artificial intelligence this year. Now some details about these projects have appeared on the net.
One of the products will be the Apprentice Bard chatbot, which uses Google LaMDA neuro conversation technology. Apprentice Bard reportedly looks and functions like ChatGPT. Thus, the user can enter a question or prompt into a text field in it and then receive a written response.
The bot’s responses are said to include information about recent events — something ChatGPT is unable to do, as it only has limited knowledge of anything that happened after 2021.
Google is also reportedly testing a new search page that uses a question-and-answer format. The experimental home page contains five potential questions that replace “I’m lucky” under the search bar. When a user enters their query, the page generates human responses in gray “bubbles”. Below these answers, Google suggests additional questions, followed by typical search results with links and headings.
In addition, Alphabet is working on a project called Atlas in its “cloud” division. No details yet on what that will be.
It is currently unclear which of Google’s projects will be made public. Google’s head of artificial intelligence, Jeff Dean, told employees that the company is moving “more conservatively than a small startup.” Giving people wrong information will have a much bigger impact on a well-known company like Google.
`The Times previously reported that the tech giant prioritized security, accuracy, and blocking disinformation when it came to developing its search chatbot. But Microsoft has already announced that it will integrate ChatGPT technology into Bing starting this March. So Google has to hurry up.
