It looks like Google is preparing to challenge ChatGPT.
The company has announced a search and artificial intelligence event titled “Google presents: Live from Paris” scheduled for February 8th at 8:30 am.
“We are reimagining how people search, explore, and interact with information to make finding what they need more natural and intuitive than ever before. Learn what we’re doing to give people greater access to information: search, maps, and more,” said a description of the event on YouTube.(opens in new window).
We don’t know if Google actually plans to announce any new products or services during the event, but it could be the answer to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s fast-growing artificial intelligence chatbot. There are signs.A recent New York Times report(opens in new window) Google’s parent company, Alphabet, claimed to have notified an internal ‘code red’ after ChatGPT’s launch(opens in new window), because they see it as an existential threat to the search business. CNBC reported a few days ago.(opens in new window) Google is already testing several new AI tools, including a chatbot called “Apprentice Bard.”
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As the Barge(opens in new window) Google CEO Sundar Pichai made an interesting comment on yesterday’s earnings call. He said the company has big plans for AI over the next few months and has been preparing for it since early last year. Pichai didn’t specify what the company plans to launch, but said it will be able to “talk directly” to “the latest and most powerful language model as a companion to search.” The first of these will be Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA.(opens in new window)so far mostly confined to Google engineers and beta testers.(opens in new window).
The timing of Google’s “Live from Paris” event is also interesting. as 9to5Google(opens in new window) The event is said to be similar in style to Google’s annual Search On event, but will take place in the fall. Google’s I/O conference will likely take place in May, so it’s not like Google doesn’t have enough opportunities to announce new products this year. February’s event takes place abruptly, but ChatGPT’s sheer popularity may be prompting Google to respond quickly.
Again, this isn’t proof that Google will launch a product to the public on February 8th, but it’s a testament to what the company is doing about AI and search in a world where millions of people are looking for answers. It will certainly be interesting to see what you are trying to say. To OpenAI’s chatbots instead of Googling them.
