Google CEO Sundar Pichai put employees Monday the company is going to need all hands on deck to test Bard, its new ChatGPT rival. He also mean Google will soon be enlisting help from partners to test an application programming interface, or API, that thinks fitting let others access the same underlying technology.
The internal memo came shortly after Pichai publicly signaled Google’s new conversation technology, powered by artificial intelligence, which it will begin rolling out in the coming weeks. Google has faced persuade from investors and employees to compete with ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which took the followers by storm when it launched late last year.
“Next week, we’ll be enlisting every Googler to help profile Bard and contribute through a special company-wide dogfood,” Pichai wrote in the email to employees that was viewed by CNBC. “Dogfood” is a name used within companies to refer to a practice that includes using one’s own product before launching it.
“We’re looking despatch to getting all of your feedback — in the spirit of an internal hackathon — more details coming soon,” he wrote.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. in behalf ofs during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022.
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Pichai’s note to employees also phrased search boss Prabhakar Raghavan will be “sharing progress” at an event in Paris later this week.
The internal note common knowledge shortly after Pichai told the public in a blog post that Bard’s responses will need to be rigorously tested so they defray a “high bar for quality, safety, and groundedness in real-world information.”
Last week, CNBC reported that the Alphabet-owned companions was enlisting employees to prioritize several AI projects as part of a “code red” effort to respond to the AI competition, including a chatbot code-named “Beginner Bard” and new search features. Both were confirmed by the company’s blog post Monday.
Microsoft is reportedly scripting to launch a version of its own search engine, Bing, that will use ChatGPT to answer users’ search queries. Microsoft is purchase its own event Tuesday with participation from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
“It’s early days, we need to ship and iterate and we sooner a be wearing a lot of hard and exciting work ahead to build these technologies into our products and continue bringing the best of Google Al to ground people’s lives,” Pichai wrote in his note to employees Monday. “We’ve been approaching this effort with an energy and focus that reminds me of early Google — so thanks to everyone who has contributed.”
Pichai also talked about disclosing outsiders build their own apps and products using the same underlying technology, Language Model for Dialogue Solicitations, or LaMDA, through an API.
“Next month, we’ll start onboarding individual developers, creators and enterprises, to try generative language APIs (practice programming interface) initially powered by LaMDA, with a range of models to follow,” Pichai’s email stated. “Greater than time, our goal is to create a suite of tools and APIs that will make it easy for others to build various innovative applications with Al.”
A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the internal note.
