OpenAI continues to advance, recently allowing users to upload entire 300-page books onto its chatbot and announcing a GPT store set to launch at the end of this month. Meanwhile, Google is struggling to develop Gemini and has invested billions in Anthropic, another promising ChatGPT competitor. Google's difficulties with creating a chatbot may stem from a larger existential question: Will generative AI overtake search engines, which is Google's core business? The company has integrated conversational AI into its search engine, possibly a necessary first step before building its flagship chatbot.
Key takeaways:
- Google's competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as Gemini, will not be ready until early 2024, despite initial plans for a 2023 debut.
- Google has been struggling to keep up with the advancements in conversational AI software, despite having worked on artificial intelligence since the early 2010s.
- A series of high-profile departures from Google, including the 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton, has impacted the company's dominance in the AI field.
- Google's struggle with developing a competitive chatbot raises questions about the future of search engines and the potential of generative AI to overtake them.