Before the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT was unleashed into the world, the novelist Robin Sloan was testing a similar AI writing assistant built by researchers at Google.
It didn't take long for Sloan, author of the bestseller “Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore,” to realize that the technology was of little use to him.
Some of the technological breakthroughs driving the red-hot field of generative AI - which can churn out paragraphs of readable text and new images as well as music and video - have been pioneered in Google's vast research arm. OpenAI declined to comment on comparisons with Google. But in announcing their extended partnership in January, Microsoft and OpenAI said they are committed to building “AI systems and products that are trustworthy and safe.”
When it first announced its LaMDA model in 2021, Google emphasized its versatility but also raised the risks of harmful misuse and the possibility it could mimic and amplify biased, hateful or misleading information. While ChatGPT and its competitors might never produce acclaimed works of literature, the expectation is they will soon begin to transform other professional tasks - from helping to debug computer code to composing marketing pitches and speeding up the production of a slide presentation.
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