[djmips]

Why aren't they on this? They should be at the forefront. I'm sure in some corner of Google they have a plan... but that plan hasn't penetrated my sphere of awareness yet.

[derangedHorse]

OpenAI has been making the most noise online because of how open they've made their recent chatbot, but Google has been on this for a while. Earlier this year they had a blog post [1] about LaMDA which doesn't seem too far off in capability from OpenAI's projects. They've also made a lot of other strides in their research [2] that kind of goes under the radar because they haven't been synthesized into products yet (at least not in the ways we'd expect them to).

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/lamda-towards-safe-grounde...

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/

[amelius]

Even if Google has been on it their search engine dominance won't last long if the research is out in the open.

[machiaweliczny]

They have data moat, from Analytics and history of searches

[amelius]

It's probably because they don't have the compute resources for this yet. I guess it would require a huge investment in hardware to release this to the masses.

Perhaps it is even prohibitively expensive.

[adamckay]

You're talking about the same Google that runs Google Cloud Platform? If OpenAI have (the budget for) the hardware, then Google certainly do.

[amelius]

> If OpenAI have (the budget for) the hardware, then Google certainly do.

The number of people using Google Search is easily 1000x larger than the number of people using OpenAI, if not more.

[layla5alive]

Add a few zeros...

[baq]

Or… they do work on it and haven’t published their results. Either because they’re not good enough - out because they’re better than expected.

I’ll leave it for you to decide which is the pessimistic option.

(Google project pitchfork.)

[kolinko]

They tackle different things - alphafold, dall-e, etc