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bustedbuddha t1_j191e8y wrote

Here's some non paywall coverage from MSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/googles-management-has-reportedly-issued-a-code-red-amid-the-rising-popularity-of-the-chatgpt-ai/ar-AA15xcdY?li=BBnb7Kz

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>-Google issued a "code red" in response to the rise of AI bot ChatGPT, NYT reports.
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>CEO Sundar Pichai redirected some teams to focus on building out AI products, per the report.
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>-The move comes as talks abound over whether ChatGPT could one day replace Google's search engine.
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>-Google's management issued a "code red" amid the launch of ChatGPT — the buzzy conversational AI chat bot created by OpenAI — as it's sparked concerns over the future of the Google search engine, The New York Times reported.
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>Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, participated in several meetings around Google's AI strategy and has directed numerous groups in the company to refocus their efforts on addressing the threat that ChatGPT poses on its search engine business, according to an internal memo and audio recording reviewed by the Times.
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>In particular, teams in Google's research, Trust and Safety division among other departments have been directed to switch gears to assist in the development and launch of new AI prototypes and products, the Times reported. Some employees have even been tasked to build AI products that generate art and graphics similar to OpenAI's DALL-E used by millions of people, according to the Times.

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ExternaJudgment t1_j1938w7 wrote

Idiots are just whining because they're now the ones way behind the curve and no one is taking them seriously as AI company anymore.

Same as no one is taking fakebook seriously since the metashit fiasco.

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bustedbuddha t1_j194m7i wrote

That's a very judgey and not very useful read on the situation. The more relevant point is that this could lead to a corporate development race, and if one of them starts more seriously optimizing for social manipulation (to use the ML systems to create a preference in the public for their product) the second order effects will probably be fairly extreme.

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94746382926 t1_j1an7zf wrote

That's not the case at all. Google and Deepmind publish more AI papers than anyone else in the field currently. They literally invented the transformer model that GPT 3 is based off of. Also, they've had paLM for almost a year now and that's already better than GPT 3. I'm pretty sure Imagen is better than Dalle 2 as well although that's more open to interpretation.

They just haven't released these to the public because it isn't worth the reputational risk for them until they can be sure these language models aren't making false and potentially harmful statements anymore.

OpenAI hasn't done anything on the level of AlphaGo or AlphaZero yet like Deepmind has. AlphaTensor just came out recently as well so they're clearly still making progress.

Also to add one more thing, Sundar Pichai isn't calling a code red because they think they're behind technologically speaking. They're calling a code red because having a LLM remove the need for search is a huge threat to their ad business. Even if everyone is using Google's assistant instead of GPT 4 or whatever it's still detrimental to their bottom line as a bot can't serve ads the same way their search can.

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Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_j1c1u9y wrote

I was thinking about how Google might figure out ways to get ads into their version of a chatbot, and they will probably figure out how to do it, albeit in different ways. I can see ads after every sentence or two, hyperlinks to websites within the chatbot’s responses, and banner ads above and below the responses.

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WrongTechnician t1_j1cm08a wrote

Exactly. They went too far on the perfection being the enemy of progress spectrum. Although given the potential implications of the tech being prudent here may be a better long term play for society. There’s an ever present struggle with providing information that is accurate, information that is plausibly accurate, and what a customer/user values more.

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