Last updated: June 27, 2023, 6:16 PM IST
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Google has its eyes on competing with ChatGPT in the market, but through one of its subsidiaries. The company’s AI research lab, DeepMind, has made a bold claim that the next AI chatbot will match or even better the capabilities we’ve seen from the OpenAI chatbot so far.
As stated in a report this week, the research lab says it will rely on the techniques of its AI system AlphaGo, which has already managed to beat humans at a board game, a first for any AI system. DeepMind is going to name its ChatGPT AI chatbot rival Gemini. DeepMind’s CEO has been quoted as saying that “he expects Gemini to have the ability to plan or solve problems and analyze text,” Demis Hassabis said in this Wired report.
Gemini briefly appeared at Google I/O last month, and he also suggests that Gemini could easily combine the strengths of the AlphaGo AI system and other language models available on the market.
Gemini won’t be DeepMind’s first foray into an AI chatbot, but now much more is at stake with ChatGPT’s success. Google has tried several ways to advance the AI revolution and most of its uses have been with Gmail, Search and more.
But companies like DeepMind certainly realize that to unlock the potential of their language models, enterprise should be the core focus, where most of the learning can take place and eventually become a ChatGPT-like public model for different audiences.
After all, ChatGPT is now available on phones, making it much easier to access for the end consumer, and Google hopes that Gemini could one day have a similar impact and reach across the ecosystem.
DeepMind will likely refresh its AI model to be more accurate rather than fast, something Google CEO Sundar Pichai has reiterated in his recent interviews. Can Gemini give ChatGPT value for money? We’ll know soon.
