The boss of Google’s search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT.
Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President Google and head of Google searchTold Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
“It then expresses itself in such a way that a machine gives a concrete but completely made-up answer,” Raghavan said in comments published in German. One of the fundamental tasks, he said, was to keep it to a minimum.
After this google has come on backfoot OpenAIa startup Microsoft is backing it with about $10 billion (roughly Rs. 82,500 crores) introduced in November chatgptWhich has since impressed users with human-like responses to users’ questions.
Alphabet City: forageIts own chatbot, launched earlier this week, but the software shared incorrect information in a promotional video, costing the company a loss of $100 billion (roughly Rs. 82,50,000 crores) in market value on Wednesday.
Alphabet, which is still conducting user testing on Bard, has not yet indicated when the app might go public.
“We obviously feel an urgency, but we also feel a great responsibility,” Raghavan said. “We certainly don’t want to mislead the public.”
Recently, Microsoft announced a multimillion-dollar partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI to unveil new products. Google, on the other hand, is working to develop Bard while investing heavily in other AI startups.
The services offered by Google’s Bard and ChatGPT are similar. Users must pose a question, a request, or prompt to receive a human-like response. Microsoft and Google plan to embed AI tools to enhance their search services bing and Google Search, which is a big chunk of revenue.
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