BERLIN, 11 February – In a newspaper interview that was published on Saturday, the head of Google’s search engine cautioned against the dangers of artificial intelligence in chatbots as Google parent firm Alphabet (GOOGL.O) fights to compete with popular app ChatGPT.
According to Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google and head of Google Search, “this type of artificial intelligence we’re talking about right now may occasionally lead to what we term hallucination.”
Following the November launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI, a company that Microsoft (MSFT.O) is investing about $10 billion in, Google has been put on the defensive. ChatGPT has impressed users with its very human-like replies to user inquiries.
Alphabet Inc. unveiled Bard, a chatbot, earlier this week. However, the software communicated false information in a promotional video, resulting in a mistake that caused the company’s market worth to drop by $100 billion on Wednesday.
Alphabet has not yet stated a release date for Bard, which is still undergoing user testing.
Raghavan stated, “We definitely feel the urgency, but we also feel the huge responsibility.”