Google to hold Search, Maps event with AI focus on February 8

Google plans to host a web-based occasion dubbed ‘Stay from Paris’ on February eighth, the place the corporate will discuss AI, Search, Maps and extra.

Within the occasion description on the YouTube page for the event, Google notes that it’s “reimagining how folks seek for, discover and work together with data, making it extra pure and intuitive than ever earlier than to seek out what you want.” The corporate goes on to notice that it’s “opening up larger entry to data for folks in all places, by Search, Maps and past.”

Furthermore, Android Police studies that Google informed the publication it plans to speak about the way it will use AI to reshape search.

Whereas that each one sounds attention-grabbing, it’s value noting the timing of all this. For one, Google sometimes doesn’t do bulletins like this early within the yr — we’d see these on the firm’s annual I/O developer convention as an alternative. However that convention continues to be taking place in Might as normal.

This implies Google is making an attempt to react shortly to OpenAI and ChatGPT. Reviews have swirled for the previous couple of weeks that Google has gone “code crimson” over ChatGPT and is speeding to reply, akin to by sharing a latest analysis undertaking known as ‘MusicLM‘ that makes music with AI and reportedly testing a ChatGPT-like chatbot called ‘Apprentice Bard’ primarily based on Google’s LaMDA language mannequin. (Sure, the identical one which an ex-Google employee claimed was sentient.)

Including to that, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on a recent earnings call that Google was making ready to let folks “work together immediately” with its latest language fashions “as a companion to look.”

In the meantime, Microsoft has additionally been within the information for its massive investments in OpenAI and reported plans to combine ChatGPT into numerous merchandise, like Bing search. Extra lately, Microsoft revealed its Teams Premium service with AI capabilities powered by the GPT-3.5 language mannequin — the identical one utilized by ChatGPT.

It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how Google responds to all this, although it appears we might study that sooner fairly than later. Additional, Android Police instructed Google was pushing its inner groups tasked with overseeing equity and ethics in AI to approve tasks quicker, which may have important drawbacks if AI tasks aren’t correctly vetted earlier than the general public will get entry to them.

Supply: Google Through: Android Police