ChatGPT: New AI ChatBot Triggers Panic Alarm For Google

In the past few weeks, there have been repeated reports and tests on the chatbot ChatGPT. This usually resulted in surprising reports, because ChatGPT works surprisingly well. So good that the existence of the bot caused panic among Google.

Anyone who has been following the technology news in the past four weeks has certainly read the name ChatGPT. This is a chatbot from OpenAI capable of answering questions using artificial intelligence. This isn’t unusual in itself, but what’s amazing is how well ChatGPT works. Because the answers of the bot can not or only rarely be distinguished from human ones. Because the bot can generate ideas such as business strategies, gift suggestions, blog topics, and holiday plans, among other things.

“Code Red” on Google

Behind ChatGPT is the company OpenAI, which specializes in AI, which in turn is financed by Elon Musk and Microsoft. Google has also noticed how well ChatGPT works and, according to a report in the New York Times, this has triggered a “Code Red” among the competition, i.e. a red alert.

Because Google sees ChatGPT as an existential threat to its business model. The reason is clear: Who needs a search engine when you can ask an AI that not only does the search for you, but also provides perfect answers? Of course: ChatGPT is not perfect yet, because the program is currently still in the prototype or beta phase.

Of course, Google isn’t new to AI-based bots like this, but it doesn’t even come close to the results of ChatGPT. It even overlaps with ChatGPT, because this bot is partly based on Google technologies, more specifically on LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications). This is the bot that a Google developer falsely claimed had become conscious.

However, Google has so far hesitated to actually offer such an application on a broad basis, because a bot makes it more difficult to sell advertising – and after all, that is Google’s business model. But now the group has to act, which is why Google CEO Sundar Pichai has asked the company’s employees to respond to the threat posed by ChatGPT. Also, should Google employees develop AI products that create artwork and other images?