In recent news, Google has enlisted its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to combat the rapidly improving artificial intelligence (AI) of ChatGPT. This news comes in response to the success of ChatGPT’s recent open-source AI language model, which reflects natural language processing capabilities that are increasingly surpassing humans’ ability to understand and respond to complex conversations.
ChatGPT, a project led by OpenAI, is an AI created to “augment human creativity” by making it possible for people to interact more authentically with machines. The goal of OpenAI is to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a limit on Commodities or market forces.”
ChatGPT recently shook the AI world when its language model outperformed previous AI programs in multiple tests. This generated a wave of concern from the AI community and major tech firms, including Google. Understandably, Google is well aware that the success of ChatGPT brings with it the potential for its AI to overtake human capabilities. As such, Google has decided to enlist its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to take control of the situation.
Brin and Page have agreed to partner with Google on a solution to the AI challenge posed by ChatGPT, a solution that entails developing an AI surpassing that of OpenAI’s model. While this team is in the early stages of planning to tackle the challenge, the implications of Google involving its founders on such a project speak volumes. It is clear that Google is taking ChatGPT’s success seriously, and wants to ensure that its own AI remains ahead of the curve.
The industry is rife with speculation among experts and tech companies, as to what the involvement of Larry Page and Sergey Brin means for the AI competition. Many agree that the entrance of these two long-time Google bosses implies a strengthening of Google’s AI and the emergence of a battle between OpenAI and the tech giant.
The potential for an AI arms race between OpenAI and Google is worrisome news for the industry. For one thing, the increased competition could create privacy and control issues if the technologies are deployed to mass audiences, as intended by OpenAI. Additionally, an AI arms race may mean increased costs, as well as the acceleration of the AI-race itself—two outcomes that may prove disastrous to the industry and its players involved.
Ultimately, time will tell the path that Google and its founders take to counter OpenAI’s ChatGPT. For the industry, the situation serves as a reminder that the quality and advancement of machine intelligence is always on the rise, and creating and maintaining a competitive AI is a difficult, but necessary task.