The OpenAI-based artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, is making some technology giants nervous, including Google. It appears that Google will soon introduce its own artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence/AI) that will become a rival to ChatGPT in the near future. This was revealed from an invitation received by technology media The Verge. The invitation stated that Google will host an event in Paris, France on February 8 at 14.30 local time or 20.30 WIB. "Follow how we re-imagine the way people search, explore, and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need," Google wrote in the invitation.
The sentence "making it more natural and intuitive than ever before" is a strong indication that Google will introduce a ChatGPT rival. After all, Google can be considered the company most worried about the presence of ChatGPT because ChatGPT can answer its users' questions fluently with a suitable context. ChatGPT can provide the information searched for directly with a narrative or language that is easily understandable to the user. This is different from Google Search results where users have to search the Google page about what they are looking for.
Google has LaMDA
It is not yet clear what interesting things Google will introduce on February 8. However, Google itself does not lack an AI-based chatbot. Google has a similar ChatGPT chatbot called the Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA).
This chatbot, which has not yet been launched to the public, was controversial in June 2022, after a former Google scientist, Blake Lemoine, revealed that LaMDA could think and have feelings like a human. Regardless of all the controversies, LaMDA can certainly be a competitor to ChatGPT. Google must also think of strategies to make LaMDA user-friendly, unbiased, not hoaxes, and not discriminate against a tribe, race, religion, or other things. Based on some reports on the internet, the main problem with ChatGPT and considered concerning currently is that the chatbot can be impartial and sides with one side, including throwing harsh words. Although ChatGPT has such a nature, the service, which is still in development, has apparently already entered Google's "radar" as a service that can threaten the Search business. In the future, it is not impossible that Google will be aggressive by launching new features or services, so that users will not switch to ChatGPT and similar services just to search for information on the internet.