Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced plans to add conversational AI to its flagship Search product. This will allow users to ask questions and engage with large language models (LLMs) in the context of search. This is the first time Google has announced plans for conversational features, and it comes after rival companies have already implemented similar features. This new feature will provide users with an even more comprehensive search experience, allowing them to get the answers they need quickly and easily.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced plans to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI engine to expand its search business. This move follows Microsoft’s release of a version of its Bing search engine that uses the same AI engine. With a 93.4 percent worldwide share of the search market, Google’s implementation of the AI engine could have a greater impact. Pichai believes that the use of AI chat will open up more opportunities for the search business, rather than pose a threat.
Google is lagging behind Microsoft in the development of chat AI search. OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT prompted Google to declare a “code red” as it saw the AI as an existential threat to its core business. Microsoft, which owns a large chunk of OpenAI, has released a version of Bing Search powered by OpenAI’s latest GPT 4 model, giving it some uncanny abilities. Google has yet to reveal a timeline for its own chat AI search, but it is clear that Microsoft is ahead in the race. This could have serious implications for Google’s core business, and the company is taking the threat seriously.
Google is cutting jobs to become 20 percent more productive and is accelerating work on new AI products. To be more efficient, Google plans to allow more collaboration between its two primary AI units, Google Brain and DeepMind. This collaboration will allow for more compute-intensive projects to be completed at a larger scale. Google is hoping that this increased collaboration will help them become more productive and efficient in their AI product development.
