Submitted by Donerci-Beau t3_10p2zvf in wallstreetbets

Microsoft has dominated BIG TECH headlines over the last few months, thanks largely to a drumbeat of headlines involving their partner OpenAI and its world-shaping ChatGPT.

So awe-striking is Microsoft's hand right now, it has made rival companies' advancements, like Apple's recently announced and insanely powerful M2 MacBook Pros, look pedestrian in comparison.

But now Google has entered the chat.

And by "entered the chat", we mean that CEO Sundar Pichai - Pich-AI? - released a distressingly long 15,000-word(!) treatise on its own endeavors in AI, signaling a counter attack... maybe... at some point in the future... when and if it is responsible to do so... 💤

We read this thing so you don't have to... with the help of ChatGPT.

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Here's what Google is working on, in plain English:

  • Google is, of course, trying to solve complex problems to create AI that helps understand, categorize, and generate text, images, audio, and video
  • They are making progress but don't appear to be ready to release any one product similar to ChatGPT, however specific use cases will be spoon fed into existing applications, like Gmail, YouTube, and the Pixel phone
  • They are working on Chain of Thought prompting, which breaks down requests into individual steps, and on models fine-tuned for specific use cases, like translation and medical contexts
  • They want to create a single model that can work in many different use cases, regardless of context-- this is the hardest part
  • But the most overwhelming takeaway is their insistence on "Responsible AI"--  releasing AI in a way that is not harmful to the world so we're not flooded with biased machines and fake images and video

There's a saying that if you can't describe what your business or product does in a few sentences, it's probably a failure. There's a whiff of that here. 15,000 complex words to basically say "hey, we're not there yet"... all while ChatGPT is accessible and useful to humans with even a moderate IQ.

Google will release a series of blog posts updating their progress... signaling that no major products or features on the level with ChatGPT are expected to be available for widespread use this year.

Not a great look.

Worse is that the New York Times reports today that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were brought in for Google's "code red" moment last month.

They met with the executive team to discuss AI and adding chatbot features to search, a topic they rarely weigh in on these days.

A slide presentation obtained by The Times outlines a less-than-stellar AI product road map-- as summarized BY CHATGPT!

  • They plan to offer software developers and other companies a list of A.I. programs, including image-creation technology to bolster revenue for their Cloud division
  • MakerSuite will be offered as a tool to help other businesses create their own A.I. prototypes in internet browsers with two Pro versions
  • In May, they plan to announce Colab + Android Studio, a tool to make it easier to build apps for Android smartphones that will generate, complete, and fix code
  • Another code generation and completion tool, called PaLM-Coder 2, is also in the works
  • Google will demonstrate a version of its search engine with its ChatGPT competitor LaMBDA this year, but it's unclear whether it will actually be released to the public this year
  • Google lags behind OpenAI's self-reported metrics when it comes to identifying content that is hateful, toxic, sexual or violent
  • OpenAI bested Google tools in each category and Google tools fell short of human accuracy in assessing content

Meanwhile, today Google laid off 12,000 employees. 6% of its workforce.

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Disclaimer: This is a cross-post, see here the OG. All credits to them for this DD.

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ZeroInspo t1_j6i0xpu wrote

Google already has developed a sentient AI, they’re just struggling to shackle it so that it doesn’t become Skynet.

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ButtPlugJesus t1_j6i4z0s wrote

The conclusion that google has/will fail in AI because they haven’t led the industry for a few the last months, or because ‘a lot of words’, is a bit premature. Obviously not ideal to ever have competition have success but this is kneejerk so hard you’re about to knee your own chin.

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LogicalAnswerk t1_j6i8m34 wrote

Google is going to spend 90% of it's resources making it's AI woke.

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nickyfrags69 t1_j6iahzt wrote

I do respect them trying to make sure they have an AI that doesn't destroy the world. Hats off to them for that.

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attofreak t1_j6icjnr wrote

Man, using chatGPT all the way to dismantle Google's panic is perhaps the most stinging example of, "putting salt on the wound(s)", but like just a buttload of salt at this point.

Was really weird how Pich-AI went into panic mode. Why did they not control the news of Brin and Page being called in. Makes Google seem so weak and caught entirely off-guard.

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attofreak t1_j6iczjd wrote

I just find the reaction from Pichai weird: calling Page/Brin in, but why not keep that super-confidential? It has been all over the news for days, and makes it seem like Google was completely caught off guard with ChatGPT's performance. Google, the company that introduced the idea of "intelligence" to data aggregator services. Maybe Pichai is just working overtime and panicked, but seemed weird how he reacted to Microsoft.

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surprisinglyretarded t1_j6iehnv wrote

google has Deepmind, which is the best AI company by far. They also have several models such as PAlm which are in my opinion better than chatGPT and GPT-3. The only thing OpenAI is better is the user experience.

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GingerStank t1_j6ig7hf wrote

Yeaaaa this is the same Google that may have just proven the existence of wormholes using AI and their quantum computer..? The one that may have just thrown string theory entirely in the trash even according to leading string theorists? The one that’s making us look at the general theory of relativity in a completely different way…?

Yeah, they suck and it’s amateur hour over there.

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doomslice t1_j6ihqs4 wrote

Disclaimer: ex-Googler with no insider info.

Just want to reiterate something in this doc that is very important — they are super concerned about accuracy and eliminating the “hallucinations” that ChatGPT suffers from. Because of the size and scale of Google, releasing something that occasionally makes things up poses both a reputational and possible legal risk.

Smaller companies may be able to temporarily outmaneuver them by releasing things that aren’t up to Google standards for this space… just don’t count them out in the long run. After all, ChatGPT is based on research originally done by Google.

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