Google Launches Gemini; Is this the end of ChatGPT?
Google announces the launch of Gemini as an update to the Bard Chatbot. Here is everything you need to know about it so far, including how it is in direct competition with OpenAI's renowned ChatGPT.
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In the ever-evolving artificial intelligence arms race, Google has unveiled two new processes: PaLM 2 and Gemini.
Following the rise of ChatGPT nearly a year ago, which now has more than 100 million monthly active users, we’ve been anticipating the next big advancement. Gemini is expected to be the strongest direct competitor.
Not much information has been released about Gemini, but we’re here to tell you everything we know so far. Google Gemini is a set of large language models (LLMs) that leverages reinforcement learning and tree search, which puts it in the category of Generative AI. As you may know, ChatGPT is a form of Generative AI, which means it produces various types of content, including text, imagery, audio and synthetic data.
In May, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, shared a blog post on how Google is making AI more helpful for everyone. In this post, he stated that Gemini is the next-generation foundation model and “was created from the ground up to be multimodal, highly efficient at tool and API integrations and built to enable future innovations, like memory and planning.”
While Gemini was in its training phase, Pichai added that it already exhibited multimodal capabilities not seen in prior models. “Once fine-tuned and rigorously tested for safety, Gemini will be available at various sizes and capabilities, just like PaLM 2,” Pichai stated.
OpenAI has also experimented with a multimodal approach for ChatGPT, so the only differentiating factor between the two processes at this point is the array of proprietary training data available to each one. Gemini, as part of Google, has access to data from Google Search, YouTube, Google Books and Google Scholar, which makes it a strong competitor.
In the meantime, Pichai announced in the same post that PaLM 2 is already in production. “PaLM 2 is the latest step in our decade-long journey to bring AI in responsible ways to billions of people. It builds on progress made by two world-class research teams, the Brain Team and DeepMind,” Pichai stated.
PaLM 2 will be stronger in logic and reasoning due to training on scientific and mathematical topics. It will also be multilingual, trained in more than 100 languages. It also has powerful coding capabilities and can help developers around the world collaborate by allowing them to add comments to code in multiple languages.
The buzz is certainly around Google Gemini, and the team at Don’t Count Us Out Yet has high hopes for this process. If it has the capabilities of ChatGPT, but access to Google’s data, it may have a chance at taking over the record in monthly active users. As of Wednesday, Google has officially announced the launch of Gemini. Keep an eye out for an upcoming article on how to use Gemini, including a full comparison to ChatGPT.
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Ariana for the Don’t Count Us Out Yet Team