Google is worried over the sudden rise of ChatGPT, a new AI chatbot

Internet giant, Google has issued a “code red” alert over the rise of ChatGPT, a new AI chatbot, which took the internet by storm for its ability to directly answer questions conversationally

A New York Times report says the management at Google has every employee’s hands on deck, indicating the seriousness with which they are approaching the situation. “CEO Sundar Pichai has been involved in a series of meetings to define Google’s AI strategy,” the report claims.

Innovation Village learnt this new AI chatbot can provide natural-sounding, easy-to-understand answers in a chat interface, removing the need to manually sift through search results.

According to ChatGPT’s webpage, “We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.”

Since its release, ChatGPT has proved its ability to be the next big shift in the industry. A bot can present information in clear, simple sentences, not just a list of Internet links. It can explain concepts in a way that people can easily understand. It can even generate ideas from scratch, including business strategies, Christmas gift suggestions, blog topics, and vacation plans.

Of course, that’s bad news for Google and other search engines, which rely on answering users’ questions based on information gleaned from across the web to generate revenue.

The sudden rise of this new AI chatbot was the equivalent of a fire alarm going off at Google. It’s possible the world is getting close to the time that Silicon Valley’s biggest companies dread the most: the rise of a new technology that could completely disrupt the market.

Google has been the world’s primary Internet access point for over two decades. Regrettably, with the rise of a new generation of chatbot technology that has the potential to alter or even replace conventional search engines, the Internet giant may soon face its first serious challenge to its core search business.

Interestingly, we tested the AI platform to find out how it works and were surprised at some of the answers we got. Below is a conversation we did on ChatGPT which you try when you visit https://chat.openai.com/chat

We were also shocked to find out Elon Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI, which created the AI chatbot. Musk served on the company’s board of directors for several years and ultimately decided to step down from his role at the company in 2018 due to potential conflicts of interest with his roles as CEO of SpaceX and Tesla.

ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a chatbot developed by OpenAI that optimizes language models for dialogue. The application is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 family of large language models, and is fine-tuned with both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques.

Please note that OpenAI introduced the new AI chatbot to get users’ feedback and learn about its strengths and weaknesses. “During the research preview, usage of ChatGPT is free.”

Google, along with other major technology companies, has been actively developing AI technologies for a number of years, including the creation of chatbots. As it turns out, Google has already developed a chatbot that can hold its own against ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot technology was actually created by Google engineers.

Google’s chatbot, called LaMDA, which stands for Language Model for Dialogic Applications, got a lot of attention this summer when Google engineer Blake Lemoine said that the bot had become conscious. Although this wasn’t the case, the technology did demonstrate how far AI-powered chatbots have come in the past few months.