According to CEO Sundar Pichai, Google may be preparing to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT by allowing users to "interact directly" with its "newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search." It would be a significant move for the corporation because, after years of study and flexing its AI skills, Google hasn't developed a public response to tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E that some analysts believe might endanger its core businesses.

Pichai stated during today's earnings call that the technology is "reaching an inflection point" and discussed how the company wants to "unlock the great opportunities AI allows." He adds that "the generative AI applications you're starting to see now" were a result of earlier Google AI research.

Pichai claims that the corporation has been preparing for its own applications since "early last year" and that it plans to do a lot in the coming months. LaMDA, Google's conversational AI model, is the first model that users will be able to interact with directly, but it's not entirely obvious how that will happen.

It won't be the first time someone from outside the firm gets to use it; Google's AI Test Kitchen allowed users to interact with the writing app on a limited basis after clearing a waiting. However, there was never a time when a tonne of Twitter users posted examples of the content that they generated using Google's AI model, and nobody has asked it to create podcast intros or homework-related essays.

I'm sure the company has been feeling pressure to do something with all the AI technology it has because some people have been speculating about how you might use ChatGPT to replace Google search, In fact, it's been rumoured that Google personnel are already building their own AI-powered chatbot competitors to ChatGPT. It wouldn't surprise me if Google was undertaking a similar project with its internal tools for converting text into graphics or perhaps video.

It appears that Google is still moving slowly and won't give users complete freedom to do anything they want.   It is looking at AI with "a great sense of responsibility," according to Pichai. At a later point in the call, he stated that Google would offer AI "more as laboratories features in some circumstances, beta features in some cases, and just steadily scaling out from there."