Google has problems as a new report claims a former company employee stated that the new chatbot Bard uses data from rival service, ChatGPT.
The Bard chatbot, launched the public trials last week, is also a rival to Microsoft's licensed Bing Chat technologyOpenAI's ChatGPT. However, according to a report from The Information, former Google AI researcher Jacob Devlin has left recently by the company when it warned Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai that Bard was getting data from ChatGPT in an indirect way.
Specifically, Devlin stated that the team of Bard developers had access to a site called ShareGPT, where chats from ChatGPT are published for anyone to check. However, Google spokesperson Chris Pappas quickly sent a statement to The Verge, which categorically states that "Bard has not been trained on data from ShareGPT or ChatGPT."
Reporters from The Information also claim, via anonymous sources, that Google's Brain AI team is joining forces with DeepMind, another artificial intelligence company under Alphabet.
The two teams are reportedly working together on a new project codenamed Gemini. The goal of the project is to create a product that can compete with OpenAI's efforts. The post seems to suggest that Google wants to have another chatbot on the sidelines if the company's efforts with Bard fail.
From: The Information and The Verge
