Google denied reports that it is copying Microsoft’s OpenAI ChatGPT program to train its AI chatbot called “Bard.
Google has denied reports that it is copying Microsoft-owned OpenAI ChatGPT software to train its AI chatbot called Bard. The Information report claims that OpenAI’s success “has forced the two AI research groups at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, to overcome years of bitter rivalry and work together.” Microsoft is adding ads to an AI-enabled Bing chatroom integrated with OpenAI GPT-4.
According to a report citing sources, software engineers from Google’s Brain AI group are working with employees at DeepMind, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, to develop software to compete with OpenAI. “Immediately suspend all experiments with artificial intelligence,” the top researchers, including Ilon Musk, wrote in an open letter calling for a halt to AI expansion.
“Known internally as Gemini, the collaboration began in recent weeks after Google failed with Bard, its first attempt to compete with the OpenAI chatbot,” the report claims. However, a Google spokesperson told The Verge that “Bard is not trained on ShareGPT or ChatGPT data.”
Meanwhile, Google has announced that it is opening up access to ChatGPT competitor “Bard” as an early experiment for users to collaborate with generative AI. Early access to Bard has been opened in the U.S. and U.K., and the company said it will eventually expand it to other countries and languages.
Bard, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, is based on a large language model (LLM), namely a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, which the tech giant says will be supplemented with new, more capable models in the future. Users can interact with Bard by asking questions and clarifying their answers with follow-up clarifying questions.