Google allows testers to access ChatGPT-style general AI

Google on Tuesday began allowing some developers and businesses access to the type of artificial intelligence that has attracted attention since the launch of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT last year.

The tech giant’s cloud computing division will offer testers ways to “inject creative AI” into apps or get them to work on Google’s own platform.

“With this, Google Cloud is poised to enable a whole new generation of builders, innovators, developers, and builders,” said Ritu Jyoti, vice president of the AI ​​team at market research firm IDC. Action people harness the power of AI in novel ways.”

Developers and businesses will be able to try out new application programming interfaces (APIs) and products that make it “easy, secure, and scalable” to build AI models using a cloud service. cloud by Google, Thomas Kurian of Google said in a blog post.

Among the functions that Google hopes to reach more widely is generalized AI that allows the software to use prompts to aggregate information or write in a conversational style.

“In Gmail and Google Docs, (testers) can simply type in the topic you want to write about and a draft will be generated for you instantly,” Kurian writes.

“From there, (they) can build or abbreviate the message or adjust the tone to be more playful or professional,” he added.

Google Cloud AI Vice Presidents, June Yang and Burak GokTurk, wrote in a blog post that putting artificial intelligence into the hands of developers, businesses, and governments globally will allow the technology to flourish. realize its full potential.

“Until now, it has been very difficult for organizations to access general AI, let alone customize[it]and sometimes this technology has a tendency to generate inaccurate information that can be misleading,” said Yang and GokTurk. can undermine trust”.

“For general AI to thrive, organizations need a new generation of tools that make it simple to build generic AI applications,” they said.

According to Google, generalized AI can help organizations brainstorm, write content, produce media content, analyze their data, etc.

Since ChatGPT launched last year, global tech giants have been trying to catch up with Microsoft — which has committed billions of dollars to the company that makes OpenAI software — by releasing announced how they will also implement generalized artificial intelligence into their own platforms and applications.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month the parent company of Facebook and Instagram was creating a product team to figure out how to “accelerate” their AI operations.

And Snapchat, the photo-sharing app popular with teenagers, says it will introduce a chatbot powered by the most up-to-date version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Initially available to subscribers, the “MyAI” tab will allow users to interact with the chatbot like it is a friend.

And Microsoft chief Satya Nadella is expected to showcase how the company is integrating ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence into its widely used business software at a special event on Thursday.

“We are excited by the potential of AI and the opportunities it will open up,” said Google’s Kurian.

“From helping people express themselves creatively, to helping developers build entirely new types of apps, to changing the way businesses and governments engage customers and voters,” he said. their tri”.

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