Tag: Blake Lemoine

Noam Shazeer, Google Brain engineer and founder of Character.ai, discussed his new startup on the "No Priors" podcast. Character.ai, a company powered by generative AI, has raised almost $200 million to create AI-driven characters such as celebrities, life coaches and therapists. Despite its potential, many tech giants held back from releasing chatbots due to fear of backfiring. OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing engine changed the playing field - but with the emergence of LaMDA, Google is now taking steps to protect user information and verify answers. Learn more about the tech industry's newest AI-based chatbot venture.

Microsoft has taken the lead in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with ChatGPT, overtaking Google who have been careful in adopting AI technologies. Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's AI language models into Bing search engine and Edge browser, allowing the Redmond-based giant to take the lead. Google's response was the introduction of chatbot, Bard, based on Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA). It has triggered suspections that Google had been overly cautious in getting their tech ready, while their rival Microsoft had pushed on. Details have emerged on Google's efforts to prevent harm from AI, with reports of employees reviewing the company's AI products and reducing the potential risks for launch. Microsoft, however, has been mum about ethical and security issues, keeping a minimum size executive team and canning employees who raised a concern. The goal for Microsoft is to lead the AI competition - something which is clear from an email seen by The New York Times, delivered by the giants technology executive, Sam Schillace.