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The recent launch of ChatGPT has led some to speculate whether it means the end of Google
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But don't dance on the tech giant's grave just yet. According to this article published today by Jennifer Elias of CNBC, Google is working
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on their own large-language model to combat ChatGPT. The article cites that Google employees were buzzing about ChatGPT at an all-hands-on meeting
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with CEO Sundar Pichai and head of AI Jeff Dean. The top-rated question at the meeting asked whether the success of ChatGPT was a missed
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opportunity for Google. Pichai and Dean responded that Google actually has technology with similar capabilities to
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ChatGPT in-house, but that they just don't think it's good enough to launch
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What the duo is likely referring to is known as Lambda, Google's conversation technology
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that stands for Language Model for Dialogue Applications, as well as several other large-language
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models owned by the company. While Google has these, they reportedly felt that there were still too many issues with
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the technology. The big one? The inaccuracy of information. OpenAI has been up front about the limitations of ChatGPT
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Recently, CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter admitting that the company has a lot of work to do to
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make the model more reliable. At the meeting, Dean told his employees that ChatGPT really strikes a need that people
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seem to have, but it's also important to realize that these models have certain types of issues
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Based on the size and the responsibility of a company like Google, Dean cites that
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it would be a reputational risk for Google to publicly roll out a technology that wasn't
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ready, and as a result, they're moving much slower than a startup like OpenAI with the
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intent to share their technology once they get things right. He'd go on to say
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You can imagine, for search-like applications, the factuality issues are really important
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and for other applications, bias and toxicity and safety issues are also paramount
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Still, both Dean and Pingei reiterated that Google is committed to adding new AI into
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their products in the future. So if Google does have a ChatGPT killer, they have no plans of making it available until
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they feel that it's ready. So how confident do you feel Google is with their large-language model technology
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Go ahead and share your thoughts in the comments section below. And if you have any questions, that's a great place to ask as well