Google is having an event this week that can only be characterized as an “emergency event” to come up with a ChatGPT killer. The event will mostly concentrate on “leveraging the power of Al to reinvent how people search,” according to the invitation Google gave to The Verge.
In other words, Google is getting ready to fire up its photocopier and create competition with ChatGPT. The event is now scheduled to last 40 minutes. You will, of course, be able to watch it live on YouTube. But it shouldn’t just be a ChatGPT killer that will be similar to the ChatGPT, rather, there should be a secret integration from Google.
A ChatGPT killer? How good can it be?
More information on the event was included in the invitation email to The Verge. Google intends to leverage Al’s capability to let people “explore and engage with information.” Google hopes to do this by making its ChatGPT clone “more natural and seem more intuitive than ever before.”
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, had an earnings call on February 3. During the results call, the CEO stated that “very soon customers will be able to interact directly with our newest, most powerful language models as a companion to Search in novel and imaginative ways.”
As a result of ChatGPT’s spectacular ascent, Google declared a “code red” early this year. It even brought co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page out of retirement to assist. So it’s reasonable to conclude that Google sees the popular chatbot as a danger and is surely working on a “ChatGPT killer”.
Google has a large number of Al technologies. However, the majority of them are not accessible to the general public. And, incidentally, there is already a Google chatbot called “LaMDA.” It is an acronym for Language Model for Dialogue Applications.
“Imagen” is another Al model for picture creation. And, as one might imagine, these two are essentially what OpenAl provides with ChatGPT and DALL-E. The primary distinction is that OpenAl’s products are open to the public, but Google’s are not. In actuality, the initiatives were only mentioned in academic papers and blog posts. But the moment has come for Google to provide these Al models, particularly the language one.
According to CNBC, the “Apprentice Bard” is one of the outcomes of Google’s productization initiatives(and is probably Google’s ChatGPT killer). It is, at its heart, a chatbot that employs LaMDA technology. It, like ChatGPT, allows users to ask questions and receive thorough responses.
CNBC’s story went on to lay out a slew of alternative routes that Google may have been experimenting with. On the Google site, for example, “prompts for prospective questions put just beneath the main search box” and “an alternate search page that might utilize a question-and-answer style.”
We may even see a results page with “a grey bubble just beneath the search field, providing more human-like replies than conventional search results.” In summary, Google may challenge ChatGPT in a variety of ways. But for the question of if ChatGPT was a threat to Google and if there was a need for the evident production of a ChatGPT killer, we can’t say. That said, it’s not something new for Google to overreact to popular things on the net.
