The CEO of the Alphabet group explained why Google, despite having the necessary technology, did not release a chatbot to the general public before OpenAI and Microsoft. 2023 will be the year of chatbots after the world was amazed at the end of 2022 by how naturally fast ChatGPT responds.
A few days ago, Google announced the launch of a chatbot called Bard. The launch was unsuccessful, and many said Google rushed the announcement to quickly respond to Microsoft, the company that integrates ChatGPT technology into the Bing search engine.
At a tech conference in Mountain View, Alphabet Group President John Hennessy explained why Google didn’t release the chatbot to the general public sooner.
He said the technology is not yet 100% ready for “massive” deployment, as it also provides false and sometimes “toxic” responses. He said that Google has been hesitant to launch a chatbot because things are still not in place, but things will change for the better in a year or two, and then the technology will be ready.
That’s why Google says it didn’t want to launch a chatbot because such conversational software still produces a fairly high number of wrong answers. There’s another reason that a Google official didn’t say: If millions of users get answers to their search queries without even opening a link while searching, Google’s ad revenue will drop.
John Hennessey was asked what he thought of ChatGPT and said that he was impressed by two things: the quality of the language used in the responses and the fact that they often give the right answers but “at a shallow level”.
Sources: CNBC, Business Insider
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