On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference in Paris, but there were no definitive moves on ChatGPT and the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI that many experts had hoped. Instead, Google ran a collection of previously announced tech in a modest presentation and lost the demo phone.
The demo, which includes references to many products that are not yet available, came hours after someone noticed that Google’s ad for the newly announced Bard large language model contained an error about the James Webb Space Telescope. After Reuters reported the error, Forbes found that Google’s stock price had fallen by about 7%, losing about $100 billion in value.
In front of a small audience in Paris, Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan and Google Search Vice President Liz Reid took turns unveiling a range of products, including Multisearch, Google Lens’ AI-powered visual search capabilities. introduced. Google Maps ‘Immersive View’ feature that enables his 3D fly-through of major cities, allowing users to search by taking pictures and describing what they want to find, new version of Google Translate, minor announcements .
YouTube copy of Google’s February 8, 2023 Google Paris event.
During a presentation on the “multisearch” feature, Reid showed a live demo. After her silence and nervous laughter, she continued.moment that triggered some confusion During the much-anticipated press event from a trillion-dollar company. Raghavan joked after Reid’s demo.
I saw some clips from the Google event in Paris. And for the first time, I started questioning Google.
Just a rudimentary presentation mistake (“I can’t find my phone”) screams “Last minute rush”. It happens, it’s a shame it was now. Also, misunderstanding the facts…
— David Bisset (@dimensionmedia) February 8, 2023
But what big news journalists had been hoping for the event arrived on Monday, two days before the presentation. This is a conversational AI model to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s “New Bing”. Monday’s announcement came as a surprise, and could be a move designed to pre-empt the Microsoft AI conference on Tuesday. The exchange gave the impression that both companies were gearing up. competitive war When it comes to generative AI, though, so far the war has become more intense as critics point to Google’s reluctance to ship a generative AI product despite pioneering much of the technology behind it. It has become a one-sided dance.
Raghavan spent time explaining Bard’s characterization at a press conference in Paris, but didn’t reveal anything new, leaving Bard locked tightly behind Google’s doors. Mr Raghavan said: “We will continue to use feedback from internal and external testing to ensure that we meet our high standards of quality, safety and reasoning prior to wider release.”
Despite Google’s slowness in bringing groundbreaking generative AI products (ones that the general public can use) to market, the story is far from over. Intellectual property and hallucination issues in large language models that create convincing falsehoods could pose problems for Microsoft, which is diving headlong with OpenAI’s technology.
