Yes, I thought it was a foregone conclusion as soon as I opened the bard page and was able to access it directly from my Google account. While Bard supports three languages, chrome's excellent experience and large Google user base quickly translate to training data on Bard. The battle is very similar to the battle between Android and IOS. Unless openAI changes its strategy, it won't be able to break out of its current path to success any time soon, given Sam Altman's interview. The time is fleeting.
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This race is a bad deal for AI safety.
OpenAI has login with Google too so it’s not a huge barrier, but I agree they are forced to move even faster now.
Google definitely has the upper hand with their money bags and won’t hesitate leaving it all free for a while as they work on the next versions or what chatgpt will become.
Agreed. For Google, this is a matter of life or death. Google will give everything they have to win this war. There may be a chance if Microsoft buys open AI outright. The final battle is between Google and Microsoft.
It will be worth watching the open source projects like mosaicML. The tools in open source are taking off like crazy speed and great innovation. Check the models on huggingface I am blown away by some of the models you can deploy on your laptop within hours.
I was listening to an interview with Max Tegmark and according to him the big breakthroughs may not necessarily depend on a large budget so even an open source dataset / models can achieve them.