Google’s Bard hasn’t precisely had a formidable debut — and The Info is reporting that the corporate is so taken with altering the fortunes of its AI chatbots, it’s forcing its DeepMind division to assist the Google Mind crew beat OpenAI with a brand new initiative known as Gemini. The Info’s report additionally comprises the possibly staggering thirdhand allegation that Google stooped so low as to coach Bard utilizing information from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, scraped from an internet site known as ShareGPT. A former Google AI researcher reportedly spoke out in opposition to utilizing that information, in line with the publication.
However Google is firmly and clearly denying the info was used: “Bard isn’t skilled on any information from ShareGPT or ChatGPT,” spokesperson Chris Pappas tells The Verge.
In keeping with The Info’s reporting, a Google AI engineer named Jacob Devlin left Google to right away be a part of its rival OpenAI after making an attempt to warn Google to not use that ChatGPT information as a result of it will violate OpenAI’s phrases of service, and that its solutions would look too related. One supply advised the publication that Google stopped utilizing that information after his warnings. Maybe it threw out that portion of the coaching, too.