Till November 2022, many people were intimated of the term ‘generative AI’. Although things altered soon after as OpenAI rolled out its ground-breaking AI chatbot, ChatGPT can literally write anything you want.
In February 2023, Google launched the competitor of ChatGPT, Bard, and Microsoft rolled out its AI-supported search engine and chatbot Bing.
Although, did you know that Bard from Google had been under process since 2021 and could have been launched around the same time when ChatGPT was launched?
Google Kicked Out Its AI Team Member
An ex-member of Google’s AI team, Blake Lemoine, disclosed in an interview with Futurism that Bard was under process in mid-2021. Although, the name was not specified, and the company was in a dilemma regarding its release.
He further went on to state that, “they were likely to release something in the end of 2022. So it can be considered that it would have been released around the same time as ChatGPT, or just before it.
Then, due to some safety reasons that I raised, they eliminated it. ”
The ex-Google engineer also revealed that the firm is filled with ‘way more futuristic technology’ that has not been launched till now.
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In the last two months, various things have been reported regarding how Google lost sleep after ChatGPT and headed into introducing an opponent of the very famous AI chatbot.
Lemoine, at the time when he was talking to the publication, revealed that Google was not being ‘pushed around’ by Open AI and the parent company of ChatGPT had not any effect on ‘Google’s trajectory.’
He further went on stating that, “In my view, Google is going about doing things in what they trust is a safe and responsible way, and OpenAI just happened to issue something.”
The History With Google
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In June 2022, Google first suspended and then fired Lemoine after he purported that an AI chatbot, Bard made by the company had gone ‘sentient’. He also revealed that the AI chatbot (made by Google) ‘thinks and replies similar to a human being.’
“If I did not know precisely what it was, which is this computer program we made recently, I would think it was a seven-year-old, eight-year-old kid that happens to know physics,” Lemoine revealed while talking to the Washington Post.
He purports that raised eyebrows and made headlines at that time.
Going through this, Lemoine was suspended by the company and was sent on paid leave. After some time, he got fired from the firm. The company alleged that Lemoine violated their confidentiality policy and refused his statements.