It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#68FQ6)
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Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT by letting people interact directly" with its newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search," according to CEO Sundar Pichai. It would be a big move for the company - as systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E have gone viral, Google - a company that's been flexing its AI muscles for years and producing tons of research in the area - hasn't had a public answer to those sorts of tools, some of which could threaten its core businesses.
During an earnings call today, Pichai talked about how the company plans to unlock the incredible opportunities AI enables," saying the tech is reach[ing] an inflection point." He also says that it was Google's earlier AI research that...