Google would possibly announce a ChatGPT competitor subsequent week

Google seems to be on the brink of tackle ChatGPT.

The corporate introduced a search and synthetic intelligence occasion titled “Google presents: Dwell from Paris,” scheduled for 8:30am on February 8.

“We’re reimagining how folks seek for, discover and work together with info, making it extra pure and intuitive than ever earlier than to search out what you want. Be part of us to learn the way we’re opening up higher entry to info for folks all over the place, by means of Search, Maps and past,” says the occasion’s description on YouTube(Opens in a new window).

Whereas we do not know whether or not Google really plans to launch a brand new services or products through the occasion, there are indications that it is likely to be the reply to OpenAI’s fast-growing synthetic intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. A current New York Times report(Opens in a new window) claimed that Google’s dad or mum Alphabet has signalled an inner “code crimson” after ChatGPT’s launch(Opens in a new window), because it considers it to be an existential risk to its search enterprise. A couple of days in the past, CNBC reported(Opens in a new window) that Google is already testing a number of new AI instruments, together with a chatbot known as “Apprentice Bard.”

As The Verge(Opens in a new window) identified, Google CEO Sundar Pichai made some attention-grabbing feedback throughout yesterday’s earnings name. He stated that the corporate has huge plans in AI over the subsequent few months, and that it has been making ready for it since early final yr. Pichai stopped in need of spilling the beans about what, precisely, the corporate plans to launch, however he did say that they’re going to let folks “work together straight” with its “latest, strongest language fashions as a companion to go looking.” The primary of those will probably be Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA(Opens in a new window), which has thus far been principally confined to Google’s personal engineers and beta testers(Opens in a new window).

The timing of Google’s “Dwell from Paris” occasion can also be attention-grabbing. As 9to5Google(Opens in a new window) identified, the occasion is styled equally to Google’s annual Search On occasions, however these are held within the fall. Google’s I/O convention will probably happen in Might, so it is not like Google hasn’t bought sufficient alternatives to launch new merchandise this yr. The February occasion comes out of the blue, and it’d simply be ChatGPT’s immense popularity that is prompting Google to behave quick.

Once more, none of that is proof that Google will launch a public-facing product on Feb. 8, but it surely’ll actually be attention-grabbing to see what the corporate has to say about AI and search in a world the place tens of millions of individuals go for solutions to OpenAI’s chatbot as an alternative of Googling them.