Google has announced an event dedicated to AI: will we see the answer to ChatGPT?

Here we are, after weeks of rumors, speculations, and tight-lipped statements, Google has finally announced an official event entirely dedicated to artificial intelligence. It is useless to get around it: the Mountain View giant is running out of time and must give an answer to ChatGPT as soon as possible.

Google’s race to create an alternative to ChatGPT

The Open AI chatbot has gone around the world: the artificial intelligence that is able to converse with users and, above all, write automatically processed texts, with often surprising results. It is clear that we are only at the beginning and it is equally clear that a more sophisticated version of ChatGPT (faster and with data updated in real time) could seriously make search engines, as we know them today, obsolete.

We know that Google has not been idle. For starters, Google’s efforts in the field of generative artificial intelligence didn’t start the day before yesterday. Alphabet has invested in the research of these technologies with huge resources and in unsuspecting times, creating a division, DeepMind , which has achieved commendable results over the years. Do you remember the AI ​​able to humiliate the greatest human players of chess, Go and even Dota 2 and StarCraft II? DeepMind had created them, to be precise.

We know that in recent weeks Google has asked its developers to give top priority to a product capable of winning a direct comparison with ChatGPT. One of the projects that responds to this need is internally called Sparrow . Then there’s Apprentice Bard, who would already be able to offer detailed answers, in a very similar way to what ChatGPT is able to do. Apprentice Bard is developed starting from Google LaMBDA, acronym of Language Model for Dialogue Applications.

We also know that Google has already started internally testing a version of its search engine based on Apprentice Bard. Same Google interface, but the answers are given within a cloud like that of WhatsApp and Telegram messages. Then, under the bot’s responses, we also find a dozen useful links, like the ones Google normally provides. In short, the best of both worlds.

Google’s event on AI: “We’ve reimagined the way people search for and interact with information”

The Google event dedicated to artificial intelligence will be held on February 8, 2023 and should last 40 minutes. Google explains that it wants to present its new vision, that it has reimagined the way users “will search, explore and interact with information”. A phrase that, in some way, takes up the concept of a search engine integrated with some form of chatbot.

However, we do not know exactly what will be presented on February 8th and it is very likely that Google, at least at this stage, will limit itself to showing a demo of its products, which could only be opened to the public in many months.

In the description of the event, Google explains that it wants to use the power of artificial intelligence to reinvent the search for information, making the process more natural and intuitive.

In the description of the event, Google explains that it wants to use the power of artificial intelligence to reinvent the search for information, making the process more natural and intuitive.

However, there is the possibility that the event will not be dedicated to the presentation of a new chatbot, but to all the other AI-based Google products, such as Google Lens (which, among other things, can automatically translate a text simply by framing it with the phone camera) and Maps. After all, the postcard of the event unequivocally mentions these applications. The event will be broadcast live on Google’s YouTube channel.