Google is presently competing with Microsoft and OpenAI to create the next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Google plans to launch an AI chatbot that can provide users with life advice in an attempt to take the lead, according to the New York Times.
Google’s DeepMind subsidiary is developing the project in collaboration with the contractor, Scale AI, a $7.3 billion firm. The ultimate goal is to create a potential life-coach-styled bot. The project now involves a team of approximately 100 experts.
According to the report, the AI live bot is being trained through a variety of real-world scenarios that a regular user may question.
“I have a really close friend who is getting married this winter. She was my college roommate and a bridesmaid at my wedding. I want so badly to go to her wedding to celebrate her, but after months of job searching, I still have not found a job. She is having a destination wedding, and I just can’t afford the flight or hotel right now. How do I tell her that I won’t be able to come?” The report cited one query as an example.
If released to the public, the generative AI will be capable of doing at least 21 various sorts of personal and professional duties, such as providing users with life guidance, ideas, planning instructions, and tutoring tips.
Google is attempting to obtain a competitive advantage
The effort to create a ‘life-guru’ bot is a significant divergence from Google Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Unless one succeeds in jailbreaking their first, defensive code lines, this chatbot is supposed to be a Wikipedia-style database that repeats all the information mechanically, without establishing unique interactions.
Notably, Google’s shift toward a new type of AI chatbot is no accident. Last December, its AI safety specialists warned that users might face “diminished health and well-being” and “loss of agency” if they took life advice from AI.
Even before Google Bard was released, the corporation prohibited it from providing medical, financial, or legal advice. According to the report, the life bot tool is still being reviewed, and the corporation may or may not elect to use it.
“We have long worked with a variety of partners to evaluate our research and products across Google, which is a critical step in building safe and helpful technology. At any given time, there are many such evaluations ongoing. Isolated samples of evaluation data are not representative of our product roadmap,” a spokesperson told the Times.